num_pages: 523
description: The Cambridge History of Islam is the most comprehensive and ambitious collaborative survey of Islamic history and civilization yet to appear in English. It sets out to view Islam as a cultural whole, and to enable the reader to follow all the threads - historical, theological, philosophical, political, economic, scientific, military, artistic - related to the rise, spread, and development of Islamic civilization.On publication in 1970 the History was welcomed as a work useful for both reference and reading, for the general reader, student and specialist alike. It has now been reprinted, with corrections, and for ease of handling the original two hardcover volumes have each been divided into two separate paperbacks.
language: English
title: The Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 1A: The Central Islamic Lands from Pre-Islamic Times to the First World War
titlecomplete: The Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 1A: The Central Islamic Lands from Pre-Islamic Times to the First World War
genres: History, Islam
ratings_count: 18
series: The Cambridge History of Islam
publisher: Cambridge University Press