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Islamic Empires - Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization (Hardcover)
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'Excellent, authoritative and illuminating' Peter Frankopan, Sunday
Times Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a
succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires
lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and
swathes of the Indian subcontinent, while Europe cowered feebly at
the margins. For centuries the caliphate was both ascendant on the
battlefield and triumphant in the battle of ideas, its cities
unrivalled powerhouses of artistic grandeur, commercial power,
spiritual sanctity and forward-looking thinking, in which nothing
was off limits. Islamic Empires is a history of this rich and
diverse civilization told through its greatest cities over the
fifteen centuries of Islam, from its earliest beginnings in Mecca
in the seventh century to the astonishing rise of Doha in the
twenty-first. It dwells on the most remarkable dynasties ever to
lead the Muslim world - the Abbasids of Baghdad, the Umayyads of
Damascus and Cordoba, the Merinids of Fez, the Ottomans of
Istanbul, the Mughals of India and the Safavids of Isfahan - and
some of the most charismatic leaders in Muslim history, from
Saladin in Cairo and mighty Tamerlane of Samarkand to the
poet-prince Babur in his mountain kingdom of Kabul and the
irrepressible Maktoum dynasty of Dubai. It focuses on these fifteen
cities at some of the defining moments in Islamic history: from the
Prophet Mohammed receiving his divine revelations in Mecca and the
First Crusade of 1099 to the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and
the phenomenal creation of the merchant republic of Beirut in the
nineteenth century.
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