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The Wiley Blackwell history of Islam /

A theoretically rich, nuanced history of Islam and Islamic civilization with a unique sociological component. This major new reference work offers a complete historical and theoretically informed view of Islam as both a religion and a sociocultural force. Uniquely comprehensive, it surveys and discu...

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Other Authors: Salvatore, Armando (Editor), Tottoli, Roberto (Editor), Rahimi, Babak (Editor), Attar, Fariduddin (Editor), Patel, Naznin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2018.
Series:Wiley-Blackwell histories of religion.
Subjects:
Islam > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Late antique beginnings (till ca. 661). Agrarian, commercial, and pastoralist dynamics in the Pre-Islamic Irano-Semitic civilizational area
  • Imperial contests and the Arabs : the world of late antiquity on the eve of Islam
  • Pre-Islamic patterns of social organization and cultural expression in West Central Arabia
  • Muhammad's movement and leadership
  • Part II. The high caliphate (ca. 661-946). The trajectory of the high caliphate : Expansion and contraction
  • Developments within the religious sciences during the rise and decline of empire
  • Shi'is, Sufis, and popular saints
  • Contested fields, knowledge mobility, and discipline crystallization
  • Part III. The earlier middle period (ca. 946-1258). Cosmopolitan expansion and the fragmentation of governance
  • Scholarship, speculative thought, and the consolidation of Sunni authority
  • Alternative patterns of legitimacy : Sunni-Shi'i debates on political leadership
  • The crystallization and expansiveness of Sufi networks within the urban-rural-nomadic nexus of the Islamic ecumene
  • Part IV. The later middle period (ca. 1258-1453). Pax Mongolica and its impact on patterns of governance
  • Religious knowledge between scholarly conservatism and commoners' agency
  • The consolidation of Sunni and Shi'i legitimacies
  • Organizational patterns and developments within Sufi communities
  • Part V. Early modernity and civilizational apogee (ca. 1453-1683). Early modern Islamicate empire : new forms of religiopolitical legitimacy
  • The 'Ulama' as ritual specialists : cosmic knowledge and political rituals
  • New sociopolitical formations and the 'renaissance' of philosophy
  • The apogee and consolidation of Sufi teachings and organizational forms
  • Part VI. Facing the global rise of European power (ca. 1683-1882). Global transformations in the 'Muslim world' : connections, crises, and reforms
  • Intellectual creativity in a time of turmoil and transition
  • Islamicate knowledge systems : circulation, rationality, and politics
  • From saints and renewers to Mahdis and proto-nationalists
  • Part VII. Colonial subjection and postcolnial developments (ca. 1882-present). Struggles for independence : colonoial and postcolonial orders
  • The 'Ulama' : challenges, reforms, and new patterns of social relevance
  • The role of intellectuals within late-colonial and postcolonial public spheres
  • The sociopolitical entanglements of Sufism.