A history of the Islamic world, 600-1800 : empire, dynastic formations, and heterogeneities in pre-modern Islamic West-Asia /

"A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800 supplies a fresh and unique survey of the formation of the Islamic world and the key developments that characterize this broad region's history from late antiquity up to the beginning of the modern era. Containing two chronological parts and fourte...

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Main Author: Steenbergen, J. van (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Islamic West-Asia, late antique Imperial and 'Medieval'-early modern dynastic formations, and a new history of the Islamic world
  • 1. West-Asia in late antiquity: Roman, Persian, and Arabian Leaderships (6th-7th centuries)
  • 2. The Prophet Muhammad and the Arabian leadership of Medina (610-661)
  • 3. The Arabian imperial formation of the Umayyads (661-750)
  • 4. Arabian expansions and late antique transformations (7th-8th centuries)
  • 5. The 'Classical' period of the Abbasids: late antique imperial formation and the triumph of the East (750-908)
  • 6. Late antique patrimonial-bureaucratic formation in Islamic West-Asia: the construction of Arabo-Islamic urbanities, authorities and courts (8th-10th centuries)
  • 7. Abbasid imperial transformations and post-Abbasid fragmentation (9th-11th centuries)
  • 8. 'Medieval' transformations across Islamic West-Asia: the Turkish dynasty of the Seljuks, and networks of Perso-Iranian viziers (1038-1193)
  • 9. 'Medieval' transformations in West-Asia's Euphrates-to-Nile zone - 1: 'Franks', Zengids and Ayyyubids
  • 10. "Medieval' transformations in West-Asia's Nile-to-Euphrates zone - 2: the Cairo Sultanate and 'the Reign of the Turks' (1250-15th century)
  • 11. 'Medieval' transformations between Transoxania and Asia Minor - 1: Mongol and post-Mongol conquest practices and Hülegüid, post-Hülegüid and Ottoman dynastic formations
  • 12. 'Medieval' transformations between Transoxania and Asia Minor - 2: Turko-Mongol and Turkmen conquest practices and dynastic formations
  • 13. 'Medieval' symbiotic transformations in Islamic West-Asia: the construction of heterogeneous urbanities, ambiguous authorities, and dynastic courts (12th-16th centuries)
  • 14. Early modern dynastic formations: (post-)Safavids, Ottomans and many others (17th-18th centuries)