A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origin to the Dawn of Modernity
A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origin to the Dawn of Modernity by Michael Cook (Princeton University)
An online book talk organized by the RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies -Islam, on October 30, 2024, from 17:00 to 19:00.
In his latest book, Michael Cook presents a panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era. He describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world.
The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity.
After setting the scene in the Middle East of late antiquity, the book depicts the rise of Islam as one of the great black swan events of history. It continues with the spectacular rise of the Caliphate, an empire that by the time it broke up had nurtured the formation of a new civilization. It then goes on to cover the diverse histories of all the major regions of the Muslim world, providing a wide-ranging account of the key military, political, and cultural developments that accompanied the eastward and westward spread of Islam from the Middle East to the shores of the Atlantic and the Pacific.
At the same time, A History of the Muslim World contains numerous primary-source quotations that expose the reader to a variety of acutely insightful voices from the Muslim past.
In order to participate, kindly register by October 28, 2024 with romanislam"AT"uni-hamburg.de
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by Stefan Heidemann & Katharina Mewes