The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World Paperback / softback
Edited by Francis (Royal Holloway, University of London) Robinson
Part of the Cambridge Illustrated Histories series
Paperback / softback
Description
Islamic peoples account for one-fifth of the world's population and yet there is widespread misunderstanding in the West about Islam.
Francis Robinson and his team set out to address this, revealing with the help of sumptuous illustration, insight, and expertise, the complex and sometimes contrary nature of Muslim culture.
As well as taking on the issues uppermost in everyone's minds, such as the role of religious and political fundamentalism, they demonstrate the importance of commerce, literacy and learning, Islamic art, the effects of immigration, exodus, and conquest, and the roots of current crises in the Middle East, Bosnia, and the Gulf.
Throughout, emphasis is placed on the interaction between Islam and the West, from the first Latin translations of the Quran to the fatwa on Salman Rushdie, to dismantle our impression of Islam as a monolithic culture.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages, 1 Tables, unspecified; 99 Plates, color; 14 Maps; 102 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/04/1999
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- ISBN:9780521669931
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages, 1 Tables, unspecified; 99 Plates, color; 14 Maps; 102 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/04/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521669931
