African and Middle Eastern world, 600-1500 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2005]
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| Series: | Medieval and early modern world.
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Table of Contents:
- The land of the Arabian nights in the year 600 C.E
- From the Sahara to the rain forest: Africa around 600 C.E
- The messenger of Allah: Muhammad and the beginning of Islam
- The sword of Allah: the Islamic expansion, 632-750
- The house of Islam, the first worldwide civilization
- The world of the Muslim mind: art and science, philosophy and mysticism
- The glory of the west: al-Andalus and the Maghrib
- Camels and ships: early kingdoms of Africa
- Allah comes to west Africa: the empires of Mali and Songhay
- In majesty he reigns: smiths and divine kings of the forest civilizations
- The emperor's giraffe: Swahili civilization in east Africa
- "There's treasure in those hills!" Bantu-speaking civilizations of central and southern Africa
- Cannons rule the day: the Ottoman Empire.