TY - BOOK AU - Cook,Michael TI - A history of the Muslim world: from its origins to the dawn of modernity SN - 9780691236575 U1 - 909.09767 PY - 2024/// CY - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press KW - History KW - Islamic countries History KW - Islamic Empire History N1 - Index present N2 - 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 ER -