{"product_id":"the-new-cambridge-history-of-islam-9780521850315","title":"The New Cambridge History of Islam","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume traces the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth. The essays in this collection demonstrate that it was during this period that the Islamic world transformed and absorbed new influences and Islam became a truly world religion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction David Morgan and Anthony Reid; Part I. The Impact of the Steppe Peoples: 1. The steppe peoples in the Islamic world Edmund Bosworth; 2. The early expansion of Islam in India André Wink; 3. Muslim India: the Delhi sultanate Peter Jackson; 4. The rule of infidels: the Mongols and the Islamic world Beatrice Forbes Manz; 5. Tamerlane and his descendants: from Paladins to Patrons Maria E. Subtelny; Part II. The Gunpowder Empires: 6. Iran under Safavid rule Sholeh A. Quinn; 7. Islamic culture and the Chinggisid Restoration: Central Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries R. D. McChesney; 8. India under Mughal rule Stephen Dale; Part III. The Maritime Oecumene: 9. Islamic trade, shipping, port-states and merchant communities in the Indian Ocean, 7th-16th centuries Michael Pearson; 10. Early Muslim expansion in South East Asia, eighth to fifteenth centuries Geoffrey Wade; 11. Islam in China to 1800 Zvi Ben-Dor Benite; 12. Islam in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean littoral, 1500–1800: expansion, polarisation, synthesis Anthony Reid; 13. South East Asian localisations of Islam, and participation within a global Umma, c. 1500–1800 Michael Feener; 14. Transition: the end of the old order - Iran in the eighteenth century Gene Garthwaite; Part IV. Themes: 15. Conversion to Islam Richard W. Bulliet; 16. Armies and their economic basis in Iran and the surrounding lands, ca. AD 1000–1500 Reuven Amitai; 17. Commercial structures Scott C. Levi; 18. Transmitters of authority and ideas across cultural boundaries, eleventh to eighteenth centuries Muhammad Qasim Zaman.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767751475543,"sku":"9780521850315","price":191.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780521850315.jpg?v=1758714711","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-new-cambridge-history-of-islam-9780521850315","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}