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Record Nr.

UNISA996247920703316

Autore

Hodgson Marshall G. S

Titolo

The venture of Islam [[electronic resource] ] : conscience and history in a world civilization . Volume 3 The gunpowder empires and modern times / / Marshall G. S. Hodgson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Illinois : , : University of Chicago Press, , 1974

ISBN

9786612089862

1-282-08986-2

0-226-34688-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (476 p.)

Disciplina

297.09

909.097671

909/.09/7671

909/.09/7671 s

Soggetti

Islamic civilization

Islamic Empire History

Middle East History 1517-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""CONTENTS""; ""VOLUME III""; ""List of Charts""; ""List of Maps""; ""BOOK FIVE: Second Flowering: The Empires of Gunpowder Times""; ""Prologue to Book Five""; ""I. The Safavi Empire: Triumph of the Shi'ah, 1503-1722""; ""II. The Indian Timuri Empire: Coexistence of Muslims and Hindus, 1526- 1707""; ""III. The Ottoman Empire: Shari'ah-Military Alliance, 1517-1718""; ""IV. Before the Deluge: The Eighteenth Century""; ""BOOK SIX: The Islamic Heritage in the Modern World""; ""Prologue to Book Six""; ""I. The Impact of the Great Western Transmutation: The Generation of 1789""

""II. European World Hegemony: The Nineteenth Century""""III. Modernism in Turkey: Westernization""; ""IV. Egypt and East Arab Lands: Revival of the Heritage""; ""V. Iran and the Russian Empire: The Dream of Revolution""; ""VI. Muslim India: Communalism and Universalism""; ""VII. The Drive for Independence: The Twentieth Century""; ""Epilogue: The Islamic Heritage and the Modern



Conscience""; ""A Selective Bibliography for Further Reading""; ""Glossary of Selected Terms and Names""; ""Index to Volume III""

Sommario/riassunto

The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle of the twentieth century. This work grew out of the famous course on Islamic civilization that Hodgson created and taught for many years at the University of Chicago.In this concluding volume of The Venture of Islam, Hodgson describes the second flowering of Islam: the Safavi, Timuri, and Ottoman em