UID:
almahu_9948022618802882
Format:
1 online resource (xxi, 721 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139056137 (ebook)
Content:
This volume traces the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth. As the faith crossed cultural boundaries, the trader and the mystic became as important as the soldier and the administrator. Distinctive Islamic idioms began to emerge from other great linguistic traditions apart from Arabic, especially in Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Swahili, Malay and Chinese. The Islamic world transformed and absorbed new influences. As the essays in this collection demonstrate, three major features distinguish the time and place from both earlier and modern experiences of Islam. Firstly, the steppe tribal peoples of central Asia had a decisive impact on the Islamic lands. Secondly, Islam expanded along the trade routes of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. Thirdly, Islam interacted with Asian spirituality, including Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Taoism and Shamanism. It was during this period that Islam became a truly world religion.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
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tIntroduction: Islam in a plural Asia /
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THE IMPACT OF THE STEPPE PEOPLES --
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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 --
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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 --
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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 --
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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 /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521850315
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521850315
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