Table of contents
Part I. The Origins of Islamic Civilization: The Middle East from c.600-1200; Introduction; The Preaching of Islam:
1. Arabia;
2. The Life of the Prophet; The Arab-Muslim Imperium, 632-945:
3. The Arab conquests and the socio-economic bases of empire;
4. The Caliphate;
5. Cosmopolitan Islam: the Islam of the imperial elite;
6. Urban Islam: the Islam of the religious elites;
7. Islamic culture and the separation of state and religion;
8. The fall of the 'Abbasid empire; From Islamic Culture to Islamic Society: Iran and Iraq, 945-c.1200:
9. The post- 'Abbasid Middle Eastern state system;
10. Muslim communities and Middle Eastern societies;
11. The collective ideal;
12. The personal ethic; Conclusion;
Part II. The Worldwide Diffusion of Islamic Societies from the Tenth to the Nineteenth Century: Introduction; The Middle Eastern Islamic Societies:
13. Iran: the Mongol, Timurid, and Safavid empires;
14. The Turkish migrations and the Ottoman empire;
15. The Arab Middle East;
16. Islamic North Africa and Spain to the nineteenth century; Islam in Central and Southern Asia:
17. Inner Asia from the Mongol conquests to the nineteenth century;
18. The Indian subcontinent: the Delhi Sultanates and the Mughal empire;
19. The formation of Islamic societies in Southeast Asia; Islam in Africa:
20. Islam in Sudanic, Savannah, and Forest West Africa;
21. Islam in East Africa and the rise of European colonial empires; Conclusion;
Part III. The Modern Transformation: Muslim Peoples in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Introduction; Nationalism and Islam in the Middle East:
22. Iran: state and religion in the modern era;
23. The dissolution of the Ottoman empire and the modernization of Turkey;
24. Egypt: secularism and Islamic modernity;
25. The Arab Middle East: Arabism, military states, and Islam;
26. North Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Secularism and Islam in Central and Southern Asia:
27. The Indian subcontinent: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh;
28. Islam in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines;
29. Inner Asia under Russian and Chinese rule; Islam in Twentieth-Century Africa:
30. Islam in West Africa;
31. Islam in East Africa;
32. Muslims in Europe and America;
Conclusion: secularized Islam and Islamic revival.