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Discovering.Islam.Making.Sense.of.Muslim.History.and.Society.Revised.Edition.eBook-EEn
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Contents
Preface to the Revised Edition
ix
Foreword by Lawrence Rosen
xiii
Preface
xix
1 Introduction: discovering Islam
1
Part One The Pattern of Islamic History
2 Muslim ideal: holy Book and Prophet
15
3 A theory of Islamic history
30
1 Ideal caliphs
33
2 Arab dynasties: Umayyads and Abbasids
38
3 The flowering of Islamic civilization
44
4 Decline and fall
51
5 Shias: revolution in the revolution
55
6 Mahdism and millenarian movements
61
4
The great Muslim empires: Ottomans, Saffavids and
Mughals
65
1 Ottomans: facing Europe
65
2 Saffavids: Shia state
69
3 Mughals: encounter with Hinduism
72
4 Obsession and synthesis
86
5
Sufis and scholars
90
1 Sufis, saints and mystics
91
2 Two scholars of Islam: Al Beruni and Ibn Khaldun
98
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CONTENTS
6 Islam of the periphery
107
1 On the periphery
107
2 The Muslim minority in China
110
3 Muslims in the USSR
111
7 Under European rule: the colonial impact on Muslim
society
117
1 The disintegration of society
118
2 The myth of the noble savage: Muslim tribesman
132
Part Two Contemporary Muslim Society
8 Princes and paupers: Muslim societies in Saudi Arabia
and south India
143
1 Saudi Arabia: the reawakening of the peninsula
144
2 The Andalus syndrome in south India: à la recherche du
temps perdu
158
9 Muslim society turned inside out: ethnicity, women
and refugees 172
1 ‘Dubai chalo’: ethnic encounters between Middle Eastern
and South Asian Muslim societies
172
2 Muslim women
184
3 Afghan refugees: displacement and despair
196
10 The reconstruction of Muslim thought
200
1 Contemporary Muslim scholarship
200
2 Creating Islamic social sciences
208
11 Only connect
217
1 American society: Great Satan or paradise on earth?
217
2 Connecting
221
3 Conclusion: the discovery of Islam
227
Appendix: Muslim chronology
232
Glossary of Islamic terminology
237
Bibliography: suggested readings
238
Index
240
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