Islam
Subtitle: Faith, Culture, History
By: Paul Lunde.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: DK Pub.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Islam -- History; Civilization, Islamic
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: 5; label: Chapter 1
title: Islam In Context
pagenum: 6; title: Islam Today; title: Multiculturalism in the West; title: Impressions of Islam; label: Chapter 2
title: The Islamic Faith
pagenum: 14; title: Origins; title: Mecca; title: Muhammad, the Messenger of God; title: The Hijra (Hegira); title: The Qur’an; title: Sunna and Hadith Shari’a; title: Women in Islam; title: The Pillars of Islam; title: The Hajj; title: Authority in Islam; title: The Mosque; label: Chapter 3
title: History of the Islamic World
pagenum: 46; title: The Caliphate; title: The Shi’i Imams; title: The Umayyads; title: The ‘Abbasids; title: Baghdad; title: The Fatimids Islam in Spain; title: The Seljuk Turks The Crusades; title: The Assassins The Mongols; title: The Mamluks; title: Timur The Ottomans; title: Safavid Persia The Mughal Empire; title: The Later Ottoman Empire; title: The Twentieth Century; label: Chapter 4
title: Islamic Art and Science
pagenum: 80; title: The Arts; title: The First Mosques; title: Persian Influences; title: Domestic Architecture; title: The Islamic Style - Literature; title: Calligraphy; title: The Decorative Arts; title: Woodcarving; title: Ceramics; title: Textiles; title: Metalworking; title: Science; title: Philosophy; label: Chapter 5
title: Modernity and Tradition
pagenum: 100; title: Modernity; title: East and West; title: Reform; title: Responses to Modernity; title: Globalization; label: Chapter 6
title: The Islamic World Today
pagenum: 110
description: Up-to-date facts on the peoples, politics and economics of the 44 states with a majority Muslim population; label: Chapter 7
title: Chronology
pagenum: 170
description: Timeline of the history of the Islamic world from 600 CE; title: Index and Acknowledgements
pagenum: 186; title: Appendix: Israel and the Palestinians
pagenum: 186; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 192