Format:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 680 p)
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digital, PDF file
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Online-Ausg. Also issued in print format
ISBN:
1139056131
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9781139056137
Series Statement:
The new Cambridge history of Islam v. 3
Uniform Title:
Cambridge histories online.
Content:
This volume surveys the political and cultural history of Islam from its late antique origins until the 11th century. The book provides an overview of the physical and political geography of the late antique Middle East and provides a cutting-edge discussion of the sources and controversies of early Islamic history
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Title from home page (viewed June 21, 2011)
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"Cambridge histories online
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Includes bibliographical references
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tIntroduction: Islam in a plural Asia
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THE IMPACT OF THE STEPPE PEOPLES ; The steppe peoples in the Islamic world
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The early expansion of Islam in India
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Muslim India: the Delhi sultanate
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The rule of the infidels: the Mongols and the Islamic world
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Tamerlane and his descendants: from paladins to patrons
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THE GUNPOWDER EMPIRES ; Iran under Safavid rule
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Islamic culture and the Chinggisid restoration: Central Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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India under Mughal rule
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THE MARITIME OECUMENE ; Islamic trade, shipping, port-states and merchant communities in the Indian Ocean, seventh to sixteenth centuries
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Early Muslim expansion in South-East Asia, eighth to fifteenth centuries
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Follow the white camel: Islam in China to 1800
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Islam in South-East Asia and the Indian Ocean littoral, 1500-1800: expansion, polarisation, synthesis
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South-East Asian localisations of Islam and participation within a global umma, c. 1500-1800
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Transition: the end of the old order -- Iran in the eighteenth century
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THEMES ; Conversion to Islam
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Armies and their economic basis in Iran and the surrounding lands, c. 1000-1500
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Commercial structures
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Transmitters of authority and ideas across cultural boundaries, eleventh to eighteenth centuries
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Also issued in print format.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521838238
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CHOL9780521850315
Author information:
Reid, Anthony 1939-
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