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The venture of Islam: conscience and history in a world civilization

Hodgson, Marshall G. S.

Year: 1974.

Publisher: University of Chicago Press.

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Frontmatter

List of Charts

List of Maps

Marshall Hodgson and The Venture of Islam, by Reuben W. Smith

Publisher's Note

Introduction to the Study of Islamic Civilization

General Prologue: The Islamic Vision in Religion and in Civilization

BOOK ONE The Islamic Infusion: Genesis of a New Social Order

I. The World Before Islam

II. Muhammad's Challenge, 570-624

III. The Early Muslim State, 625-692

BOOK TWO The Classical Civilization of the High Caliphate

Prologue to Book Two

I. The Islamic Opposition, 692-750

II. The Absolutism in Flower, 750-813

III. The Shar'i Islamic Vision, c. 750-945

IV. Muslim Personal Piety: Confrontations with History and with Selfhood, c. 750-945

V. Speculation: Falsafah and Kalam, c. 750-945

VI. Adab: The Bloom of Arabic Literary Culture, c. 813-945

VII. The Dissipation of the Absolutist Tradition, 813-945

A Selective Bibliography for Further Reading

Glossary of Selected Terms and Names

Index to Volume I

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Title:

The venture of Islam : conscience and history in a world civilization Marshall G.S. Hodgson.

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Hodgson, Marshall G. S

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The venture of Islam : conscience and history in a world civilization Marshall G.S. Hodgson.
Hodgson, Marshall G. S
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

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• Civilization, Islamic
• Islamic Empire -- History
• Middle East -- History -- 1517-

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