EAN: 9780691236575

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

A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Müammad to the birth of the
modern era   This book describes and explains the major events  personalities  conflicts  and
convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes
readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century  and an epilogue
continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a
civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity.  After setting the scene in the
Middle East of late antiquity  the book depicts the rise of Islam as one of the great black
swan events of history. It continues with the spectacular rise of the Caliphate  an empire that
by the time it broke up had nurtured the formation of a new civilization. It then goes on to
cover the diverse histories of all the major regions of the Muslim world  providing a
wide-ranging account of the key military  political  and cultural developments that accompanied
the eastward and westward spread of Islam from the Middle East to the shores of the Atlantic
and the Pacific.  At the same time  A History of the Muslim World contains numerous
primary-source quotations that expose the reader to a variety of acutely insightful voices from
the Muslim past.

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