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A HISTORY OF THE MUSLIM WORLD - MICHAEL A COOK ...

In Michael Cook's words  this book is about a substantial slice of human history delimited by a
particular cultural characteristic: adherance to Islam in some form or other. [...] A
commitment to Islam makes a difference. Wherever a society and its rulers have come to be
Muslim  this has meant a major discontinuity with its pre-Islamic past and a significant
expansion of its relations with the wider Muslim world. Starting in the pre-Islamic Middle East
Cook returns a sense of wonder to how Muhammad could not only become a prophet of a new
monotheistic religion but also unite the Arab tribes behind it and create a state that would
conquer much of the territory that belonged to the Byzantines and the Sasanians  the two
empires that had balanced power in the region for hundreds of years. Exploring the high culture
of the Abbasids  Cook then charts the disintegration of the Caliphate and the brief rise of the
Fatimids and the Mongols of the Steppe. He covers the Ottomans (Turkish)  Safavids (Iranian) 
Mughals (India)  and ventures to East Africa  Madagascar  Somalia  Southeast Asia  and many
places between. An epilogue gestures to major themes in the post-1800 world--

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