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A history of the Muslim world : from its origins to the dawn of modernity / by Michael Cook

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024Description: lxi, 895 pISBN:
  • 9780691236575
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909.09767 COO-H
Summary: 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.
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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.

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