History Of The Muslim Discovery Of The World
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Author | : Bernard Lewis |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2001-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393321657 |
The author examines the sources and nature of Muslim knowledge of the West. He explores the subtle ways in which Europe and Islam have influenced each other over seven centuries.
Author | : Dzavid Haveric |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Islamic civilization |
ISBN | : 9780958010337 |
For centuries, Islam, as a universal religion, was among the world's greatest, enlightenedand most creative cultural forces as well as a powerful and splendid civilisation. In histhoughtful and comprehensive book, Dzavid Haveric, explores the rise and furtherdevelopment of the Islamic civilisation. Using a multidisciplinary approach, especiallyhistorical and historiographical, the author includes a wide-range of sources with his focalpoint on Islamic civilisation. This cultural history surveys the magnificent discoveries andachievements of the Muslims from the 7th to the 15th centuries. The book demonstratesthat the Muslim discoveries of various parts of the globe, particularly during the GoldenAge of Islamic civilisation, played an important part in history.By exploring Islamic civilisation within the plurality of civilisations this work puts forwarda very distinct point of view. The author presents a balanced look at the cultural-religiousdiversity and interaction of civilisations. It outlines the interaction of Islamic civilisationwith various ancient civilisations and other civilisations that also emerged or flourished. Inhis observations, the author illuminates the Islamic contribution to world history and alsoit includes many values and the riches of different civilisations, beliefs and cultures of theworld. This work is a treasure of fascinating facts and a source of important information. Itis also a blend of scholarship and dedication and a timely contribution to Islamic culturalhistory, comparative civilisations, multi-faith relations and cosmopolitanism.
Author | : Vernon O. Egger |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2017-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351389076 |
A History of the Muslim World to 1750 traces the development of Islamic civilization from the career of the Prophet Muhammad to the mid-eighteenth century. Encompassing a wide range of significant events within the period, its coverage includes the creation of the Dar al-Islam (the territory ruled by Muslims), the fragmentation of society into various religious and political groups including the Shi'ites and Sunnis, the series of catastrophes in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that threatened to destroy the civilization, and the rise of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires. Including the latest research from the last ten years, this second edition has been updated and expanded to cover the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. Fully refreshed and containing over sixty images to highlight the key visual aspects, this book offers students a balanced coverage of the Muslim world from the Iberian Peninsula to South Asia, and detailed accounts of all cultures. The use of maps, primary sources, timelines, and a glossary further illuminates the fascinating yet complex world of the pre-modern Middle East. Covering art, architecture, religious institutions, theological beliefs, popular religious practice, political institutions, cuisine, and much more, A History of the Muslim World to 1750 is the perfect introduction for all students of the history of Islamic civilization and the Middle East.
Author | : Vernon O. Egger |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 763 |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131551107X |
The history of the predominantly Muslim world is examined within the context of world history. It examines political, economic, and broad cultural developments, as well as specifically religious ones. The themes of the book are tradition and adaptation: it examines the tensions between the desire of Muslims to maintain continuity with their legacy and their recognition of the need to adapt to changing conditions.
Author | : Frederick William Dame |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3848238632 |
Some so-called authorities claim that Muslims came to America hundreds of years before Columbus arrived in the New World. Are the claims true? Columbus' expedition represents the first major discovery of the Americas and the first appearance of non-Native Americans. The conventional wisdom is that Columbus ended tens of thousands of years of near-total isolation for the Native Americans. Since the Americas had been initially populated (probably between 13,000 BC and 11,000 BC) there had been no engagement with peoples from any other continent, save small ventures by the Norse into Northeastem Canada. Did Muslims come to the Americas, possibly as early as the 700s? These researchers argue that Muslims came from Islamic Spain, particularly the port of Delba (Pelos) during the rule of Caliph Abdullah Ibn Mohammed (888-912). A Muslim historian, Abul-Hassan Al-Masudi (c. 895-957), added a map of the world to his book, one that contained "a large area in the ocean of darkness and fog" (the Atlantic ocean) which he referred to as the unknown territory (the Americas). This book demonstrates that this assertion is important for Muslims because in conjunction with the relevant verses from the Koran and quotes from Mohammed it establishes the claim of Muslims that Allah intended America to be Islamic. The book also investigates the lives of selected Muslims in America and organizations from the eighteenth century into the twenty-first century. It reveals that there was nothing more than a continuation of typical Islamic deception and subversive jihad. It also documents the lie of the Islamic claim that hundreds of place names in the United States of America and Canada derive from Arabic-Islamic roots. Finally, the book exposes the rewriting of American history by Islamic and pro-Islamic media. This book is alarming, informative, interesting, and true.
Author | : Cemil Aydin |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2017-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674050371 |
“Superb... A tour de force.” —Ebrahim Moosa “Provocative... Aydin ranges over the centuries to show the relative novelty of the idea of a Muslim world and the relentless efforts to exploit that idea for political ends.” —Washington Post When President Obama visited Cairo to address Muslims worldwide, he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians who have taken the existence of a unified global Muslim community for granted. But as Cemil Aydin explains in this provocative history, it is a misconception to think that the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims constitute a single entity. How did this belief arise, and why is it so widespread? The Idea of the Muslim World considers its origins and reveals the consequences of its enduring allure. “Much of today’s media commentary traces current trouble in the Middle East back to the emergence of ‘artificial’ nation states after the fall of the Ottoman Empire... According to this narrative...today’s unrest is simply a belated product of that mistake. The Idea of the Muslim World is a bracing rebuke to such simplistic conclusions.” —Times Literary Supplement “It is here that Aydin’s book proves so valuable: by revealing how the racial, civilizational, and political biases that emerged in the nineteenth century shape contemporary visions of the Muslim world.” —Foreign Affairs
Author | : Bernard Lewis |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Europe |
ISBN | : 9780393015294 |
The Muslim world of the 11th century was a great civilization, a center of art and science stretching from Spain to the Middle East, while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. The two worlds knew little of one another. Slowly, inevitably, however, Europe and Islam came together through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy. The Muslims began to take note of the Europeans and to write about them, to acquire information on languages, science, government, religion, economics.
Author | : Kambiz GhaneaBassiri |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2010-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521849640 |
Traces the history of Muslims in the US and their waves of immigration and conversion across five centuries.
Author | : Akbar S. Ahmed |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1134495439 |
This accessible work balances the image of Islam as aggressive and fanatical with an objective picture of the main features of Muslim history and the compulsions of Muslim society.
Author | : Firas Alkhateeb |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2017-11-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1849049777 |
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France to East Africa and South East Asia. Yet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists and theologians, not to mention rulers, statesmen and soldiers, have been occluded. This book rescues from oblivion and neglect some of these personalities and institutions while offering the reader a new narrative of this lost Islamic history. The Umayyads, Abbasids, and Ottomans feature in the story, as do Muslim Spain, the savannah kingdoms of West Africa and the Mughal Empire, along with the later European colonization of Muslim lands and the development of modern nation-states in the Muslim world. Throughout, the impact of Islamic belief on scientific advancement, social structures, and cultural development is given due prominence, and the text is complemented by portraits of key personalities, inventions and little known historical nuggets. The history of Islam and of the world's Muslims brings together diverse peoples, geographies and states, all interwoven into one narrative that begins with Muhammad and continues to this day.