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The New Cambridge History of Islam - Vol 3

Buku terbitan Cambridge University Press tahun 2011 'The New Cambridge History of Islam Vol 3 - The Eastern Islamic World Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries'. Buku edited by David Morgan and Anthony Reid.

Folder: D cambridge islam - Cambridge History of Islam.

David O. Morgan is Professor Emeritus of History and Religious Studies in the Department of History, University of Wisconsin Madison. He is the author of The Mongols (2nd edition, 2007) and Medieval Persia 1040 1797 (1988), and is General Editor of Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.

Anthony Reid, formerly Director, Asia Research Institute and Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore, is currently Professor Emeritus at the Australian National University, Canberra. His recent books include Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce (2 vols., 1988 93), Charting the Shape of Early Modern Southeast Asia (1999), An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and Other Histories of Sumatra(2004) and Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia (2010).

Contents:

Part 1 The Impact of the Steppe Peoples
The Steppe peoples in the Islamic world; The early expansion of Islam in India; Muslim India - the Delhi sultanate; The rule of the infidels - the Mongols and the Islamic world; Tamerlane and his descendants - from paladins to patrons.

Part 2 The Gunpowder Empires
Iran under Safavid rule; Islamic culture and the Chinggisid restoration - Central Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; India under Mughal rule.

Part 3 The Maritime Oecumene
Islamic trade, shipping, port states and merchant communities in the Indian Ocean, seventh to sixteenth centuries; Early Muslim expansion is South East Asia - eight to fifteenth centuries: Follow the white camel - Islam in China to 1800; Islam in SEA and the Indian Ocean littoral 1500-1800 - expansion, polarization, synthesis; SEA localization of Islam and participation within a global umma - c.1500-1800; Transition - the end of the old order Iran in the eighteenth century.

Part 4 Themes
Conversion to Islam; Armies and their economic basis in Iran and the surrounding lands - c.1000-1500; Commercial structures [Scott C Levi]; Transmitters of authority and ideas across cultural boundaries - eleventh to eighteenth centuries [Muhammad Qasim Zaman]

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