The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 2, The Western Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries

Maribel Fierro

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780521839570
• eBook ISBN: 9781316183137
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Volume 2 of The New Cambridge History of Islam is devoted to the history of the Western Islamic lands from the political fragmentation of the eleventh century to the beginnings of European colonialism towards the end of the eighteenth century. The volume embraces a vast area from al-Andalus and North Africa to Arabia and the lands of the Ottomans. In the first four sections, scholars – all leaders in their particular fields - chart the rise and fall, and explain the political and religious developments, of the various independent ruling dynasties across the region, including famously the Almohads, the Fatimids and Mamluks, and, of course, the Ottomans. The final section of the volume explores the commonalities and continuities that united these diverse and geographically disparate communities, through in-depth analyses of state formation, conversion, taxation, scholarship and the military.

Table of contents

• Cover
• THE NEW CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ISLAM: VOLUME 2: The Western Islamic World Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries
• THE NEW CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ISLAM
• General editor
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Plates
• Maps
• Dynastic tables
• Contributors
• A note on transliteration and pronunciation
• Chronology
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• PART I: AL-ANDALUS AND NORTH AND WEST AFRICA (ELEVENTH TO FIFTEENTH CENTURIES)
• PART II: EGYPT AND SYRIA (ELEVENTH CENTURY UNTIL THE OTTOMAN CONQUEST)
• PART III: MUSLIM ANATOLIA AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
• PART IV: NORTH AND WEST AFRICA (SIXTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES)
• PART V: RULERS, SOLDIERS, PEASANTS, SCHOLARS AND TRADERS
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index