Studies on the civilization of Islam
Ranging from studies on Sufism and the Koran to discussion of nineteenth and twentieth-century Arabic literature, these essays on the law and literature of Islamic society illustrate the unique vision of one of the world's great Orientalists.
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Princeton, NJ
Princeton University Press
[1962]
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Table of Contents:
- pt.1. Medieval Islamic History
- An interpretation of Islamic history
- The evolution of government in early Islam
- Arab-Byzantine relations under the Umayyad caliphate
- The social significance of the Shuubiya
- The armies of Saladin
- The achievement of Saladin
- Tarikh
- pt.2. Islamic Institutions, Philosophy and Religion
- Some considerations on the Sunni theory of the caliphate
- Al-Mawardi's theory of the caliphate
- The Islamic background of Ibn Khaldun's political theory-- The structure of religious thought in Islam
- Khawatir fil-Adab al-Arabi (Reflections on Arabic literature)
- pt.3. Contemporary Intellectual Currents
- Studies in contemporary Arabic literature
- The reaction in the Middle East against Western culture
- Problems of modern Middle Eastern history