The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates : The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century (Paperback, 4 ed)

Chapter 1 The matrix of the Muslim world: the Near East in the early seventh century Chapter 2 The birth of the Islamic state Chapter 3 Conquest and division in the time of the R?shid?n caliphs Chapter 4 The Umayyad caliphate Chapter 5 The early ‘Abbasid caliphate Chapter 6 The middle ‘Abbasid caliphate Chapter 7 The Early Islamic Economy Chapter 8 The structure of politics in the Muslim commonwealth Chapter 9 The Buyid confederation Chapter 10 The Kurds Chapter 11 The Hamdanids Chapter 12 Bedouin political movements and dynasties Chapter 13 The Eastern Iranian World in the Tenth and Early Eleventh Centuries Chapter 14 Early Islamic Egypt and the Fatimid empire Postscript: the coming of the Seljuks