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The Central Islamic lands from pre-Islamic times to the first World War / edited by P.M. Holt, Ann K.S. Lambton, Bernard Lewis.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via Cambridge Core)
Other Authors:	Holt, P. M. (Peter Malcolm) (Editor), Lambton, Ann K. S., 1912-2008 (Editor), Lewis, Bernard, 1916-2018 (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Edition:	1st pbk. ed.
Series:	Cambridge history of Islam ; v. 1A.
Subjects:	Islamic countries > History. Islamic civilization. Islamic countries. History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / P.M. Holt
The rise and domination of the Arabs
Pre-Islamic Arabia / Irfan Shahîd
Muhammad / W. Montgomery Watt
The Patriarchal and Umayyad caliphates / Laura Veccia Vaglieri
The 'Abbasid caliphate / D. Sourdel
The coming of the steppe peoples
The disintegration of the caliphate in the east / B. Spuler
Egypt and Syria / Bernard Lewis
Anatolia in the period of the Seljuks and the Beyliks / Osman Turan
The emergence of the Ottomans / Halil İnalcik
The central Islamic lands in the Ottoman period
The rise of the Ottoman empire / Halil İnalcik
The heyday and decline of the Ottoman empire / Halil İnalcik
The later Ottoman empire in Rumelia and Anatolia / Urial Heyd
The later Ottoman empire in Egypt and the fertile crescent / P.M. Holt
Safavid Persia / R.M. Savory
Persia: the breakdown of society / K.S. Ann Lambton
Central Asia from the sixteenth century to the Russian conquests / B. Spuler
The Golden Horde and its successors / M.E. Yapp
Tsarist Russia and the Muslims of central Asia / Akdes Nimet Kurat.