Product Description: Volume 5 of The New Cambridge History of Islam examines the history of Muslim societies from 1800 to the present. Francis Robinson, a leading historian of Islam, has brought together a team of scholars with a broad range of expertise to explore how Muslims responded to the challenges of Western conquest and domination across the last two-hundred years...read more

Product Description: Two of the more important developments in world history over the past two centuries have been the expansion of Western power and the revival of Islam. South Asia has played a central role in both processes, being the main focus of the imperialism of the British and an important site of the Muslim revival...read more

Profiles rulers from the thirteenth through the twentieth centuries whose reigns and lands were affected by Mughal power throughout Iran, Central Asia, Afghanistan, and north and central India, in a series of biographical portraits that includes coverage of Timur, Shah Abbas the Great, and Akbar the Great.

Product Description: These essays address key themes in the history of the Muslims of South Asia: conversion to Islam, the impact of print, the emergence of Islam as a worldly religion, the process of 'secularization,' the relationship between religion and politics, and the diverse responses to the most important scholarly contributions to the field over the last twenty years...read more

Focusing on the relationship between Islam and the West, an authoritative, balanced account of Muslim culture and history discusses the role of religious and political fundamentalism, the effects of colonialism, and the roots of current crises in Islam. History Alt. UP. (view table of contents)

Discusses the lands, peoples, history, politics, religions, and cultures of six nations in Southern Asia

Comprises papers, most presented at a 1985 colloquium held at the University of Washington under the auspices of the South Asian Studies program of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and at the 1985 annual meeting of the Association forAsian Studies in Philadelphia.

Extensive maps and color photographs enhance an informative study of the development of Islam, detailing the rise of Arab power, its fragmentation, the spread of Islam, and the modern Arab world

Why some Indian Muslims under British rule should have organised politics on a communal basis is one of the most important problems in the history of the subcontinent. Insistence on a separate Muslim political identity led eventually to the foundation of Pakistan and many of the troubles which have beset the area since Independence. The separate Muslim front in Indian politics was led and supported mainly by men from the United Provinces. The first period of effective separatist politics ended in 1923. This book examines the circumstances in which the separate Muslim front was built up and crumbled away in this period, and then analyses the different groups which at various times supported it. Dr Robinson argues that Muslim separatism was fostered by the political needs of the British, of the Muslims and of the Indian National Congress.