The Eastern Islamic World V3: Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries

by Anthony Reid

This volume traces the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth. As the faith crossed cultural boundaries, the trader and the mystic became as important as the soldier and the administrator. Distinctive Islamic idioms began to emerge from other great linguistic traditions apart from Arabic, especially in Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Swahili, Malay and Chinese. The Islamic world transformed and absorbed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521850312
• ISBN13: 9780521850315
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 756 Pages
• Weight: 2.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.8" x 9.1"