The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates (A History of the Near East)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of maps
List of genealogical tables
Preface to the first edition
Preface and acknowledgements
Notes on names, titles and dates
1 The matrix of the Muslim world: the Near East in the early seventh century
2 The birth of the Islamic state
3 Conquest and division in the time of the Rāshidūn caliphs
4 The Umayyad caliphate
5 The early ‘Abbasid
caliphate
6 The middle ‘Abbasid
caliphate
7 The early Islamic economy
8 The structure of politics in the Muslim commonwealth
9 The Buyid confederation
10 The Kurds
11 The Hamdanids
12 Bedouin political movements and dynasties
13 The Eastern Iranian world in the tenth and early eleventh centuries
14 Early Islamic Egypt and the Fatimid empire
Postscript: the coming of the Seljuks
Principal sources for the history of the Near East, 600–1050
Suggested further reading
Glossary
Index