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Islam in the Middle Ages : the origins and shaping of classical Islamic civilization /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :
Praeger, ABC-CLIO
c2010.
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| Series: | Praeger series on the Middle Ages.
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Table of Contents:
- Arabia in the eve of Islam
- Muhammad the prophet of Islam : origins
- The prophet's mission : Mecca
- The prophet's mission : Medina
- The Meccan response and the triumph of the ummah
- Succession, conquest, and expansion: the ummah becomes an 'Arab kingdom'
- The Hashimite restoration : a revolution shaped by images of an idealized past
- The split between the Hashimites : 'Alids versus Abbasids/Shi'ites versus Sunnites
- Centralzing power : the rise of a universal Islamic empire
- Emerging cracks within the universal Islamic empire
- The changing political climate : heralding the end of the formative period of medieval Islam
- The Qur'an and its commentators
- The major themes of Muslim scripture
- The formation of Islamic law and legal tradition
- The formation of different schools of Islamic law
- Islamic theology and popular religion.