Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives
The First 1000 Years
$29.65
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2018
Summary
The religious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers, and philosophers of the early Muslim world helped to shape the 1,400-year-long development of today’s second-largest world religion. But who were these people? What do we know of their lives, and the ways in which they influenced their societies?
Chase F. Robinson draws on the long tradition in Muslim scholarship of commemorating in writing the biographies of notable figures, but weaves these ambitious lives together to c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500293782 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0500293783 |
| Author: | Chase F. Robinson |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 40mm x 130mm x 198mm |
Critics Review
‘A beautifully written set of brief, vividly drawn portraits’ - Times Higher Education
Chase F. Robinson
Chase F. Robinson taught Islamic history for fourteen years at the University of Oxford before being appointed President of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and later Distinguished Professor of History. His extensive publications on pre-modern Islam include Islamic Historiography (2003), Empires and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia (2000) and The New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 1 (2010).
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