A history of Islamic societies

List of illustrations . . xiii
List of maps . . xv
Lists of tables and figures . . xvi
Preface and acknowledgments to the first edition . . xviii
Preface and acknowledgments to the second edition . . xxvii
Publisher's preface . . xxx

PART I THE ORIGINS OF ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION: THE MIDDLE EAST FROM c. 600 TO c. 1200 . . 3

THE PREACHING OF ISLAM . . 10
THE ARAB-MUSLIM IMPERIUM (632-945) . . 31
FROM ISLAMIC CULTURE TO ISLAMIC SOCIETY: IRAN AND IRAQ, 945-c. 1200 . . 112

PART II THE WORLDWIDE DIFFUSION OF ISLAMIC SOCIETIES FROM THE TENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURIES . . 197

THE MIDDLE EASTERN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES . . 226
ISLAM IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ASIA . . 337
ISLAM IN AFRICA . . 400

PART III THE MODERN TRANSFORMATION: MUSLIM PEOPLES IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES 453

NATIONALISM AND ISLAM IN THE MIDDLE EAST . . 469
SECULARISM AND ISLAM IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ASIA . . 620
ISLAM IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICA . . 732
ISLAM IN THE WEST . . 785

Glossary . . 873
Bibliography . . 884
Index . . 941