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Worlds of Islam : a global history
McDougall, James, 1974-2026
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From its birth in seventh-century Arabia, Islam has been a faith on the move. In a few decades, it transformed the Middle East and Central Asia, overturning the ancient empires of Rome and Persia. Over the next millennium, soldiers, scholars, missionaries and merchants carried it to Europe and Africa, Southeast Asia and China. By the nineteenth century, Islam encompassed an extraordinary diversity, from Muslim-ruled empires to new nations where Muslims lived out their faith among many others. Through colonialism and the Cold War, Muslims proved to be as adaptable and dynamic as modernity itself. While monarchs in the Gulf asserted dynastic privilege and fundamentalists in Egypt and Pakistan preached social morality, revolutionaries from Algeria to Indonesia fought for national self-determination, and activists in North America and Europe campaigned for civil liberties and social justice. In the global and polarized twenty-first century, Islam remains a world-historical force among others - oil and capitalism, ideology and war - shaping global events and being reshaped by them. The history of billions of Muslims, and how it relates to others, matters to everyone.
Main title:
Worlds of Islam : a global history / James McDougall.
Author:
McDougall, James, 1974-, author
Imprint:
London : Allen Lane, 2026.
Collation:
xiv, 574 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241528488 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
909.09767909.0976 MCD909.0976909.097 MACD909.097
Language:
English
BRN:
9028150