The venture of Islam
Subtitle: conscience and history in a world civilization
By: Marshall G. S. Hodgson.
Edition: Paperback ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
Subjects: Civilization, Islamic.; Islamic Empire -- History.; Middle East -- History -- 1517-
Description: Presents and analyzes the world history of Islam from 625 A.D. to the second flowering of Islam during the Safari, Iimuri, and Ottoman empires.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The classical age of Islam; title: v. 2. The expansion of Islam in the middle periods; title: v. 3. The gunpowder empires and modern times.