The Golden Age of Islam (Paperback, Markus Wiener Publs ed.)

Maurice Lombard portrays the Islamic world as the center of civilization at a time when the West was primitive and backward. Its reach extended from Cordoba to Samarkand, and it maintained and developed the tradition of wealth, cultural and artistic achievement, and thriving urban life which it had absorbed from its predecessors, the civilizations of Greece, Egypt, and Persia and the ancient cities of the Middle East. It is this Islamic economy and civilization which the author portrays at its height and brilliantly sets into its context of satellite, in part semi-civilized, peripheral worlds - black North Africa, the barbarian West, the region of Russian rivers, and the Byzantine Empire. The book is considered a masterpiece of the Annales school of French historians.

General

Imprint:	Markus Wiener Publishing Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2009
Authors:	Maurice Lombard
Editors:	Jane Hathaway
Dimensions:	230 x 153 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	280
Edition:	Markus Wiener Publs ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-55876-322-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Islamic studies Books > History > World history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-55876-322-8
Barcode:	9781558763227

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