The Cambridge History of Islam

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List of maps
Preface
Introduction
Part I. The Rise and Domination of the Arabs:
1. Pre-Islamic Arabia Irfan Shahid
2. Muhammad W. Montgomery Watt
3. The Patriarchal and Umayyad caliphates Laura Veccia Vaglieri
4. The 'Abbasid caliphate D. Sourdel
Part II. The Coming of the Steppe Peoples:
5. The disintegration of the caliphate in the east B. Spuler
6. Egypt and Syria Bernard Lewis
7. Anatolia in the period of the Seljuks and the Beyliks Osman Turman
8. The emergence of the Ottomans Halil Inalcik
Part III. The Central Islamic Lands in the Ottoman period:
9. The rise of the Ottoman Empire Halil Inalcik
10. The heyday and decline of the Ottoman Empire Halil Inalcik
11. The later Ottoman Empire in Rumelia and Anatolia Uriel Heyd
12. The later Ottoman Empire in Egypt and the Fertile Crescent P. M. Holt
13. Safavid Persia R. M. Savory
14. Persia: the breakdown of society Ann K. S. Lambton
15. Central Asia from the sixteenth century to the Russian conquests B. Spuler
Appendix M. E. Yapp
16. Tsarist Russia and the Muslims of Central Asia Akdes Nimet Kurat.

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