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Islamic civilization in thirty lives the first 1,000 years by Robinson, Chase F.

Table of Contents: “…(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).…”

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