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  • Title A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity
  • Author Michael A. Cook
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 960
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press
  • Date 2024-05-07
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780691236575 / 0691236577
  • Weight 2.9 lbs (1.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.37 x 6.22 x 2.13 in (23.80 x 15.80 x 5.41 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
    • Religious Orientation: Islamic
  • Library of Congress subjects Islamic Empire - History, Islamic countries - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2023009577
  • Dewey Decimal Code 909.097

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 03/01/2024, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/01/2024, Page 0

About the author

Michael Cook is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His books include Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective (Princeton), A Brief History of the Human Race, and The Koran: A Very Short Introduction.
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Hardback. New. <p><b>A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era</b><br /><br />This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity.<br /><br />After setting the scene in the Middle East of late antiquity, the book depicts the rise of Islam as one of the great black swan events of history. It continues with the spectacular rise of the Caliphate, an empire that by the time it broke up had nurtured the formation of a new civilization. It then goes on to cover the diverse histories of all the major regions of the Muslim world,… Read More
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"In Michael Cook's words, this book is "about a substantial slice of human history delimited by a particular cultural characteristic: adherance to Islam in some form or other. [...] A commitment to Islam makes a difference. Wherever a society and its rulers have come to be Muslim, this has meant a major discontinuity with its pre-Islamic past and a significant expansion of its relations with the wider Muslim world." Starting in the pre-Islamic Middle East, Cook returns a sense of wonder to how Muhammad could not only become a prophet of a new monotheistic religion but also unite the Arab tribes behind it and create a state that would conquer much of the territory that belonged to the Byzantines and the Sasanians, the two empires that had balanced power in the region for hundreds of years. Exploring the high culture of the Abbasids, Cook then charts the disintegration of the Caliphate and the brief rise of the Fatimids and the Mongols of the Steppe. He covers the Ottomans (Turkish), Safavids (Iranian),… Read More
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