ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION IN THIRTY LIVES

Author Chase | Publisher Thames&hudson

Publish Year 2016

Pages 272

ISBN 9780500110300

Editor .

Translator .

Book Cover Paperback Cover



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 their societies? Chase F. Robinson draws on the long tradition in Muslim scholarship of commemorating in writing the biographies of notable figures, but weaves these ambitious lives together to create a rich narrative of early Islamic civilization, from the Prophet Muhammad to fearsome Tamerlane. Beginning in Islam's heartland, Mecca, we move across Arabia to follow Islam's journey across North Africa, as far as Spain in the West, and eastwards through Central and East Asia; we see the rise and fall of Islamic states through the political and military leaders working to secure peace or expand their power, and, within this political climate, the development of Islamic law, scientific thought and literature through the words of the scholars who devoted themselves to these pursuits. Alongside the famous characters who coloured this landscape, including Muhammad's controversial cousin, 'Ali; the first Sultan of Egypt, Saladin; and the poet Rumi, the reader will also meet less well-known figures, such as Shajar al-Durr, slave-turned-Sultana of Egypt, and Ibn Fadlan, whose travels in Eurasia brought first-hand accounts of the Volka Vikings to the Abbasid Caliph.

Price

62.5 USD


Out of Stock

Delivery & Payment

نحن ندرك تماماً أهمية حماية خصوصية المعلومات التي تزودونا بها, فمكتبة الأنجلو المصرية لا تشارك معلوماتكم الشخصية مع أي شركات أخرى لأهداف تسويقية او غيرها. المعلومات التي نطلبها تستخدم فقط بواسطة المكتبة لكى نتمكن من ارسال الطلبات فى دقه و سرعة الى العنوان المذكور سياسة ارجاع السلع يمكن ارجاع الكتب المباعة فى خلال اربعة عشر يوما من تاريخ الشراء و يتم حساب تكاليف الشحن على العميل لكن فى حاله ان هناك خطأ فى الارسال او المنتج يتم تحمل تكاليف الشحن بالكامل على المكتبة اما بالنسبة للاختبارات النفسية لا يمكن استرجاعها لاى سبب كان الا اذا كان هناك خطأ فى الشحن من طرفنا

Other books by author