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Islam in the Middle Ages : the origins and shaping of classical Islamic civilization
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- Creator
- Jacob Lassner and Michael Bonner
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- xxiv, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780275985691, 0275985695, 9780313047091, 031304709X
- OCLC
- ocn262892808
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Arabia in the eve of Islam -- Muhammad the prophet of Islam : origins -- The prophet's mission : Mecca -- The prophet's mission : Medina -- The Meccan response and the triumph of the ummah -- Succession, conquest, and expansion: the ummah becomes an 'Arab kingdom' -- The Hashimite restoration : a revolution shaped by images of an idealized past -- The split between the Hashimites : 'Alids versus Abbasids/Shi'ites versus Sunnites -- Centralzing power : the rise of a universal Islamic empire -- Emerging cracks within the universal Islamic empire -- The changing political climate : heralding the end of the formative period of medieval Islam -- The Qur'an and its commentators -- The major themes of Muslim scripture -- The formation of Islamic law and legal tradition -- The formation of different schools of Islamic law -- Islamic theology and popular religion