The Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 1A, The Central Islamic Lands from Pre-Islamic Times to the First World War

The Cambridge History of Islam is the most comprehensive and ambitious collaborative survey of Islamic history and civilization.

P. M. Holt (Edited by), Ann K. S. Lambton (Edited by), Bernard Lewis (Edited by)

9780521291354, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 21 April 1977

544 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.69 kg

'On the basis of length and scope, the History is the most comprehensive, and at the same time the most detailed study of Islam so far attempted, and … it is likely to remain so for at least another generation.' Journal of the American Oriental Society

First published in 1970, The Cambridge History of Islam is the most comprehensive and ambitious collaborative survey of Islamic history and civilization yet to appear in English. On publication it was welcomed as a work useful for both reference and reading, for the general reader, student and specialist alike. It has now been reprinted, with corrections, and for ease of handling the original two hardcover volumes have each been divided into two separate paperbacks.

List of maps
Preface
Introduction
Part I. The Rise and Domination of the Arabs: 1. Pre-Islamic Arabia Irfan Shahid
2. Muhammad W. Montgomery Watt
3. The Patriarchal and Umayyad caliphates Laura Veccia Vaglieri
4. The 'Abbasid caliphate D. Sourdel
Part II. The Coming of the Steppe Peoples: 5. The disintegration of the caliphate in the east B. Spuler
6. Egypt and Syria Bernard Lewis
7. Anatolia in the period of the Seljuks and the Beyliks Osman Turman
8. The emergence of the Ottomans Halil Inalcik
Part III. The Central Islamic Lands in the Ottoman period: 9. The rise of the Ottoman Empire Halil Inalcik
10. The heyday and decline of the Ottoman Empire Halil Inalcik
11. The later Ottoman Empire in Rumelia and Anatolia Uriel Heyd
12. The later Ottoman Empire in Egypt and the Fertile Crescent P. M. Holt
13. Safavid Persia R. M. Savory
14. Persia: the breakdown of society Ann K. S. Lambton
15. Central Asia from the sixteenth century to the Russian conquests B. Spuler
Appendix M. E. Yapp
16. Tsarist Russia and the Muslims of Central Asia Akdes Nimet Kurat.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]