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Preface

Acknowledgements

Publisher's preface

Part I. The Origins of Islamic Civilisation: the Middle East from c.600 to c.1200: Introduction: Middle Eastern societies before the advent of Islam

The Preaching of Islam: 1. Arabia

2. The life of the Prophet

The Arab-Muslim Imperium (632-945): 3. The Arab conquests and the socio-economic bases of empire

4. The Caliphate

5. Cosmopolitan Islam: the Islam of the imperial elite

6. Urban Islam: the Islam of the religious elites

7. Islamic culture and the separation of state and religion

8. The fall of the Abbasid empire

From Islamic Culture to Islamic Society: Iran and Iraq, 945-c.1200: 9. The post-Abbasid Middle Eastern state system

10. Muslim communities and Middle Eastern societies

11. The collective ideal

12. The personal ethic

Conclusion: the Middle Eastern Islamic paradigm

Part II. The Worldwide Diffusion of Islamic Societies from the Tenth to the Nineteenth Century: Introduction: the Islamic world and the rise of Europe

The Middle Eastern Islamic Societies: 13. Iran: the Mongol, Timurid, and Safavid empires

14. The Turkish migrations and the Ottoman Empire

15. The Arab Middle East

16. Islamic North Africa and Spain to the nineteenth century

17. Inner Asia from the Mongol conquests to the nineteenth century

18. The Indian subcontinent: the Delhi Sultanates and the Mughal empire

19. The formation of Islamic societies in Southeast Asia

Islam in Africa: 20. Islam in Sudanic, savannah, and forest West Africa

21. Islam in East Africa and the rise of European colonial empires

Part III. The Modern Transformation: Muslim Peoples in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Introduction: modernity and the transformation of Muslim societies: Nationalism and Islam in the Middle East: 22. Iran: state and religion in the modern era

23. The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the modernisation of Turkey

24. Egypt: secularism and Islamic modernity

25. The Arab Middle East: Arabism, military states, and Islam

26. North Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Secularism and Islam in Central and Southern Asia: 27. The Indian subcontinent: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

28. Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia

29. Inner Asia under Russian and Chinese rule

Islam in Twentieth Century Africa: 30. Islam in West Africa

31. Islam in East Africa

Conclusion: secularised Islam and Islamic revival

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