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Islamic civilization in thirty lives : the first 1,000 years / Chase F. Robinson.

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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 th...

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Main Author: Robinson, Chase F. (Author)
Other title:Islamic civilization in 30 lives.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Thames & Hudson, 2016.
Subjects:
Islamic civilization.
Civilization, Arab.
Islam.
Theologe.
Philosoph.
Herrscher.
Gelehrter.
Middle East > Biography.
Middle East > Intellectual life.
Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Islam & empire 600-850
  • Muhammad, the prophet (632)
  • 'Ali : cousin, caliph and forefather of Shi'ism (661)
  • 'A'isha : wife of the Prophet (678)
  • 'Abd al-Malik : engineer of the caliphate (705)
  • Ibn al-Muqaffa' : translator and essayist (759)
  • Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya : renunciant and saint (801)
  • al-Ma'mun : caliph-patron (833)
  • The Islamic commonwealth 850-1050
  • 'Arib : courtesan of caliphs (890)
  • al-Hallaj : 'the Truth' (922)
  • al-Tabari : traditionalist rationalist (923)
  • Abu Bakr al-Razi : free-thinking physician (925 or 935)
  • Ibn Fadlan : intrepid envoy (fl. tenth century)
  • Ibn Muqla : vizier, scribe, calligrapher? (940)
  • Mahmud of Ghazna : conqueror and patron (1030)
  • al-Biruni : cataloguer of nature and culture (c. 1050)
  • A provisional synthesis 1050-1250
  • Ibn Hazm : polemicist, polymath (1064)
  • Karima al-Marwaziyya : hadith scholar (1070)
  • al-Ghazali : 'Renewer' of Islam (1111)
  • Abu al-Qasim Ramisht : merchant millionaire (c. 1150)
  • al-Idrisi : cosmopolitan cartographer (1165)
  • Saladin : anti-Crusader hero (1193)
  • Ibn Rushd (Averroes) : Aristotelian monotheist (1198)
  • Disruption & integration 1250-1525
  • Rumi : Sufi 'poet' (1273)
  • Rashid al-Din : physician, courtier and global historian (1318)
  • al-Hilli : paragon of Shi'ism ascendant (1325)
  • Ibn Taymiyya : stubborn reactionary (1328)
  • Timur : sheep-rustler, world-conqueror (1405)
  • Ibn Khaldun : social theorist and historian (1406)
  • Mehmed II : conqueror and renaissance man (1481)
  • Shah Isma'il : esoteric charismatic (1524)

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