The Great Caliphs; The Golden Age of the 'Abbasid Empire
by Amira K. BennisonFormat: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2010-08-31
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary
This accessible and informative history brings the classical Islamic world alive, illuminating its importance as the inheritor and interpreter of Greco-Roman traditions to the cultural history of Europe and America Book jacket.
Author Biography
Amira K. Bennison is senior lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. vii |
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Note on Transliteration and Arabic Conventions | p. x |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| A Stormy Sea: The Politics of the 'Abbasid Caliphate | p. 10 |
| The making of an empire | |
| The Umayyads: Islam's first caliphal dynasty | |
| The rise of the 'Abbasids | |
| The early 'Abbasid caliphate | |
| The Samarran interlude | |
| The Shi'i century | |
| The Saljuq sultanate and the 'Sunni revival' | |
| The Crusades and the twilight of the caliphate | |
| From Baghdad to Cordoba: The Cities of Classical Islam | p. 54 |
| Arab urbanism at the dawn of Islam | |
| The first Muslim towns | |
| Umayyad urbanism | |
| 'Abbasid imperial cities and their imitators | |
| Provincial cities in the 'Abbasid age | |
| Princes and Beggars: Life and Society in the 'Abbasid Age | p. 94 |
| Peasants and country folk | |
| The people of the city | |
| Women and children | |
| The religious minorities | |
| Beggars and tricksters | |
| The Lifeblood of Empire: Trade and Traders in the 'Abbasid Age | p. 137 |
| Routes and commodities | |
| Merchants and pilgrims | |
| Trade facilities | |
| Baghdad's 'Golden Age': Islam's Scientific Renaissance | p. 158 |
| The foundations of Islamic learning | |
| The flowering of knowledge under the 'Abbasids | |
| The 'Abbasid translation movement | |
| Translations, translators and scientists | |
| Knowledge and science after the translation movement | |
| The 'Abbasid Legacy | p. 203 |
| Notes | p. 216 |
| Bibliography | p. 225 |
| Index | p. 235 |
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