00986nam a22001817a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000130007608200210008910000180011024500980012826000510022630000160027750000180029352004220031154600080073365000630074120260407121641.0260407s2024    |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780691236575  cPK-LaUMT  a909.09767bCOO-H1 aCook, Michael12aA history of the Muslim world :bfrom its origins to the dawn of modernity /cby Michael Cook  aPrinceton :bPrinceton University Press,c2024  alxi, 895 p.  aIndex present  aIn 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.  aEng  aHistoryxIslamic countries HistoryyIslamic Empire History