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Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives - The First 1,000 Years (Hardcover)
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Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives - The First 1,000 Years (Hardcover)
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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 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.
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