Deze meerdelige geschiedenis onderzoekt de uitgestrektheid van islamitische rijken, van hun grondleggende oorsprong in de 7e eeuw tot de uiteindelijke neergang van machten zoals de Ottomanen in de vroege 20e eeuw. Elke bijdrage synthetiseert diverse vakgebieden—geschiedenis, theologie, filosofie, recht, kunst en literatuur—om een rijke vertelling te bieden. Door de wisselende dynamiek van verandering te benadrukken en de geschiedenis te baseren op de ervaringen van individuen en gemeenschappen, bieden deze boeken een boeiend en compleet verslag voor zowel academische als algemene lezers.
Provides a history and a thematic analysis of the empire's institutions and aspects of life in the Seljuk world This book examines the political, administrative, military, economic and social organisation of the Great Seljuk Empire using a wide variety of historical and literary sources. It... číst celé
This book explores the rise and establishment of the Mongol Empire under Chinggis Khan, as well as its expansion and evolution under his successors. It also examines the successor states (Ilkhanate, Chaghatayid Khanate, the Jochid Ulus (Golden Horde), and the Yuan Empire) from the dissolution of... číst celé
From the 10th century to the end of the 12th century, the Fatimid Empire played a central, yet controversial, role in the history of Islam. By relating it to the wider history of Islam, the Crusades and its theocratic counterparts in Byzantium and Western Europe, this book shows the full historical significance of the empire.
This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive account of the rise and fall of the Almoravids and the Almohads, the two most important Berber dynasties of the medieval Islamic west, an area that encompassed southern Spain and Portugal, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. The Sanhaja Almoravids emerged from the Sahara in the 1050s to conquer vast territories and halt the Christian advance in Iberia. They were replaced a century later by their rivals, the Almohads, supported by the Masmuda Berbers of the High Atlas. Although both have often been seen as uncouth, religiously intolerant tribesmen who undermined the high culture of al-Andalus, this book argues that the eleventh to thirteenth centuries were crucial to the Islamisation of the Maghrib, its integration into the Islamic cultural sphere, and its emergence as a key player in the western Mediterranean, and that much of this was due to these oft-neglected Berber empires.