Translation of: Einführung in die islamische Geschichte.

Originally published as: An introduction to Islam.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-293) and index.

Print version record.

Introduction: The Concept and Unity of Islamic History -- Europe and Islam: The History of a Science -- Early studies of Islam in the context of religious war -- From confrontation to co-existence -- The beginnings of Islamic studies -- The rise of Oriental philology -- 'Historicism' and the opening up of the sources -- Islam as a Held of scholarship -- Research in Islam in East and West: encounter and conflict -- Islam: Religion and Legal System -- The Revelation -- The development of religious doctrine -- Law and government -- The Islamic World: Society and Economy -- Arabia: landscape arid history at the beginning of Islam -- Bedouins and sedentary peoples -- Apicultural economy, taxation and land tenure -- Urban society and economy -- A Regional View of Islamic History -- The Arabian peninsula -- Syria and Palestine -- Iraq -- The West -- Egypt -- Iran -- Anatolia -- The further lands of Islam -- Periods of Islamic History -- Arabia before Islam (until c.610 ad) -- Muhammad: the mission of the Arab Prophet and the first Islamic state (c.610-32) -- The caliphate until the end of the Umayyads (632-750) -- The caliphate of the 'Abbasids and its successor states from 749-c. 1050 -- The Seljuq period (c. 1055-c. 1258) -- The Mongol period. From the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols to the establishment of the Ottoman state in the Near East (1258-1517) -- The Ottoman period (16th-18th centuries) -- The emergence of national states Westernisation and reform (from the beginning of the 19th century) -- Appendix: Languages, Names and the Calendar of Islam -- Language and script -- Names and titles -- The Islamic calendar -- Chronological Table -- Bibliography.

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