The Last Great Muslim Empires: The Last Great Muslim Empires:

by Hans J. Kissling, Bertold Spuler, F.R.C. Bagley, et al.

Book Overview

"Islamic history feeds into world history ... Islamic civilization became a global phenomenon, for example, in its capacity to receive and absorb culture from one end of the world and then pass it on to other parts of the world. One sees this in the rapid movement, within the Islamic world, of paper-making or irrigation technology, of herbs and agricultural crops, or of scientific knowledge, especially mathematics, astronomy, and medicine. Demographically,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558761128
• ISBN13: 9781558761124
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

reviews for Last Great Muslim Empires

"A high level of excellence. . . . The chapter on the Fertile Crescent and the Arabian peninsula is balanced and judicious, and . . . [t]he chapter on North-West Africa or Barbary is especially readable and full of insights. . . . Sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia are equally well-served. . . . A useful survey of this rather neglected transitional period between the decline of classical Islamic civilization and the revival of recent times . . . the editor is to be complimented on having brought so much unity of treatment and smoothness of style to a composite work of this sort." -Middle Eastern Journal