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Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century

Series The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 4

Edited by Robert Irwin

Publication Date 2010

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521838245

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521838245

Overview

Robert Irwin's authoritative introduction to the fourth volume of The New Cambridge History of Islam offers a panoramic vision of Islamic culture from its origins to around 1800. The introductory chapter, which highlights key developments and introduces some of Islam's most famous protagonists, paves the way for an extraordinarily varied collection of essays. The themes treated include religion and law, conversion, Islam's relationship with the natural world, governance and politics, caliphs and kings, philosophy, science, medicine, language, art, architecture, literature, music and even cookery. What emerges from this rich collection, written by an international team of experts, is the diversity and dynamism of the societies which created this flourishing civilization. Volume four of The New Cambridge History of Islam serves as a thematic companion to the three preceding, politically oriented volumes, and in coverage extends across the pre-modern Islamic world.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century in the Cambridge University Press online
catalogue.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction
by
Robert Irwin

RELIGION AND LAW

SOCIETIES, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS

LITERATURE

LEARNING, ARTS AND CULTURE

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