[PDF] Readings In World History The Islamic World eBook

Author : Andrew Rippin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1136803505

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The Islamic World is an outstanding guide to Islamic faith and culture in all its geographical and historical diversity. Written by a distinguished international team of scholars, it elucidates the history, philosophy and practice of one of the world's great religious traditions. Its grounding in contemporary scholarship makes it an ideal reference source for students and scholars alike. Edited by Andrew Rippin, a leading scholar of Islam, the volume covers the political, geographical, religious, intellectual, cultural and social worlds of Islam, and offers insight into all aspects of Muslim life including the Qur’an and law, philosophy, science and technology, art, literature, and film and much else. It explores the concept of an ‘Islamic’ world: what makes it distinctive and how uniform is that distinctiveness across Muslim geographical regions and through history?

Author : Marvin E. Gettleman
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 14,16 MB
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802194524

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“The many facets of Middle Eastern history and politics are admirably represented in this far-ranging anthology.” —Publishers Weekly In this insightful anthology, historians Marvin E. Gettleman and Stuart Schaar have assembled a broad selection of documents and contemporary scholarship to give a view of the history of the peoples from the core Islamic lands, from the Golden Age of Islam to today. With carefully framed essays beginning each chapter and brief introductory notes accompanying over seventy readings, the anthology reveals the multifaceted societies and political systems of the Islamic world. Selections range from theological texts illuminating the differences between Shiite and Sunni Muslims, to diplomatic exchanges and state papers, to memoirs and literary works, to manifestos of Islamic radicals. This newly revised and expanded edition covers the dramatic changes in the region since 2005, and the popular uprisings that swept from Tunisia in January 2011 through Egypt, Libya, and beyond. The Middle East and Islamic World Reader is a fascinating historical survey of complex societies that—now more than ever—are crucial for us to understand. “Ambitious . . . A timely work, it focuses mainly on sociopolitical texts dating from the rise of Islam to the debates concerning U.S. foreign policy in the post-9/11 world.” —Choice

Author : National Geographic Learning
Publisher : National Geographic Society
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2007-03-11
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9780792249450

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Traces the origins and beliefs of Islam, the fastest growing religion in the world today, to Muhammad and his first converts, the nomads and townspeople of Arabia. Tells how the Islamic Empire expanded through conquest and trade and produced great achievements in science, medicine, and architecture.

Author : Andrew Rippin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9004283757

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In celebration of the many contributions of Claude Gilliot to Islamic studies, an international group of twenty-one friends and colleagues join together to explore books and written culture in the Muslim world. Divided into three sections – authors, genres and traditions – the essays explore themes that have been of central interest and concern to Gilliot himself including the Qurʾān, tafsīr, ḥadīth, poetry, and mysticism. Gilliot’s detailed and extensive work on many authors and texts, literary genres, and specific case-studies on many Muslim traditions renders this volume an apt tribute to him as well as offering Islamic studies’ scholars valuable research insights on these subjects. The authors of these English, French and German essays are all renowned scholars from Europe and North America, each of whom have benefitted substantially from Gilliot’s work and collegiality. With contributions by: Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, Mehdi Azaiez, Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau, Abdallah Cheikh-Moussa, Jean-Louis Déclais, Denis Gril, Manfred Kropp, Pierre Larcher, Michael Lecker, Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Harald Motzki, Tilman Nagel, Angelika Neuwirth, Emilio Platti, Jan van Reeth, Andrew Rippin, Uri Rubin, Walid Saleh, Roberto Tottoli, Reinhard Weipert, Francesco Zappa

Author : William Hardy McNeill
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226561554

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Arabic literature and historical source materials trace the evolution of Muslim social, political, economic, religious, and cultural life from the pre-Islamic period to the present

Author : Francis Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521669931

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Islamic peoples account for one fifth of the world's population and yet there is widespread misunderstanding in the West of what Islam really is. Francis Robinson and his team set out to address this, revealing the complex and sometimes contrary nature of Muslim culture. As well as taking on the issues uppermost in everyone's minds, such as the role of religious and political fundamentalism, they demonstrate the importance of commerce; literacy and learning; Islamic art; the effects of immigration, exodus, and conquest; and the roots of current crises in the Middle East, Bosnia, and the Gulf. Throughout, emphasis is placed on the interaction between Islam and the West, from the first Latin translations of the Quran to the fatwa on Salman Rushdie. This elegant book deliberately sets out to dismantle the Western impression of Islam as a monolithic world and replace it with a balanced view, from current issues of fundamentalism to its dynamic culture and art. Francis Robinson is the editor of two outstanding reference works: Atlas of the Islamic World Since 1500 (Cambridge, 1982) and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India (1989).

Author : Robin Doak
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Islamic Empire
ISBN : 1604131616

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Examines the history of the Islamic empire.