CONTENTS
List of illustrations xiii
List of maps xv
Lists of tables and figures xvi
Preface and acknowledgments to the first edition xviii
Preface and acknowledgments to the second edition xxvii
Publisher's preface xxx

PART I THE ORIGINS OF ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION: THE MIDDLE EAST FROM c. 600 TO c. 1200 3

THE PREACHING OF ISLAM 10
THE ARAB-MUSLIM IMPERIUM (632-945) 31
FROM ISLAMIC CULTURE TO ISLAMIC SOCIETY: IRAN AND IRAQ, 945-c. 1200 112

Part II THE WORLDWIDE DIFFUSION OF ISLAMIC SOCIETIES FROM THE TENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURIES 197

THE MIDDLE EASTERN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES 226
ISLAM IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ASIA 337
ISLAM IN AFRICA 400

PART III THE MODERN TRANSFORMATION: MUSLIM PEOPLES IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES 453

NATIONALISM AND ISLAM IN THE MIDDLE EAST 469
SECULARISM AND ISLAM IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ASIA 620
ISLAM IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICA 732
ISLAM IN THE WEST 785

Glossary 873
Bibliography 884
Index 941