Islamic civilization in thirty lives the first 1,000 years
Religious thinkers, political leaders, lawmakers, writers, and philosophers have shaped the 1,400-year-long development of the world's second-largest religion. But who were these people? What do we know of their lives and the ways in which they influenced their societies? In Islamic Civilizatio...
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Islam & Empire 600--850
- 1.Muhammad the Prophet (632)
- 2.`Ali cousin, caliph and forefather of Shi'ism (661)
- 3.`A'isha wife of the Prophet (678)
- 4.`Abd al-Malik engineer of the caliphate (705)
- 5.Ibn al-Muqaffa' translator and essayist (759)
- 6.Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya renunciant and soint (801)
- 7.al-Ma'mun caliph-patron (833)
- pt. 2 The Islamic Commonwealth 850--050
- 8."Arib courtesan of caliphs (890)
- 9.al-Hallaj the Truth (922)
- 10.al-Tabari traditionalist rationalist (923)
- 11.Abu Bakr al-Razi free-thinking physician (925 or 935)
- 12.Ibn Indian intrepid envoy (fl. tenth century)
- 13.Ibn Muqla vizier, scribe, calligrapher? (940)
- 14.Mahmud of Ghazna conqueror and patron (1030)
- 15.al-Biruni cataloguer of nature and culture (c. 1050)
- pt. 3 A Provisional Synthesis 1050--1250
- 16.Ibn Hazm polemicist, polymath (1064)
- 17.Karima al-Marwaziyya hadith scholar (1070)
- 18.al-Ghazali `Renewer' of Islam (1111)
- 19.Abu al-Qasim Ramisht merchant millionaire (c. 1150)
- 20.al-Idrisi cosmopolitan cartographer (1165)
- 21.Saladin anti-Crusader hero (1193)
- 22.Ibn Rushd (Averroes) Aristotelian monotheist (1198)
- pt. 4 Disruption & Integration 1250--1525
- 23.Rumi Sufi `poet' (1273)
- 24.Rashid al-Din physician, courtier and global historian (1318)
- 25.al-Hilli paragon of Shi'ism ascendant (1325)
- 26.Ibn Taymiyya stubborn reactionary (1328)
- 27.Timur sheep-rustler, world-conqueror (1405)
- 28.Ibn Khaldun social theorist and historian (1406)
- 29.Mehmed II conqueror and renaissance man (1481)
- 30.Shah Isma'il esoteric charismatic (1524).