The Oxford History of Islam

Table of Contents 1. MUHAMMAD AND THE CALIPHATE: Political History of the Islamic Empire up to the Mongol Conquest, Fred M. Donner (University of Chicago) 2. FRUIT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE: The Relationship between Faith and Practice in Islam, Vincent J. Cornell (Duke University) 3. LAW AND SOCIETY: The Interplay of Revelation and Reason in the Shariah, Mohammad Hashim Kamali (International Islamic University, Malaysia) 4. SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND TECHNOLOGY: The Making of a Scientific Culture, Ahmad Dallal (Stanford University) 5. ART AND ARCHITECTURE: Themes and Variations, Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom 6. PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY: From the Eighth Century C.E. to the Present, Majid Fakhry (American University of Beirut and Georgetown University) 7. ISLAM AND CHRISTENDOM: Historical, Cultural, and Religious Interaction from the Seventh to the Fifteenth Centuries, Jane I. Smith (Hartford Seminary) 8. SULTANATES AND GUNPOWDER EMPIRES: The Middle East, Ira M. Lapidus (University of California at Berkeley) 9. THE EASTWARD JOURNEY OF MUSLIM KINGSHIP: Islam in South and Southeast Asia, Bruce B. Lawrence (Duke University) 10. CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA: Transnationalization, Islamization, and Ethnicization, Dru C. Gladney (Asia-Pacific Center and University of Hawaii, Manoa) 11. ISLAM IN AFRICA TO 1800: Merchants, Chiefs, and Saints, Nehemia Levtzion (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) 12. FOUNDATIONS FOR RENEWAL AND REFORM: Islamic Movements in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, John Obert Voll (Georgetown University) 13. EUROPEAN COLONIALISM AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN MUSLIM STATES, S. V. R. Nasr (University of San Diego) 14. THE GLOBALIZATION OF ISLAM: The Return of Muslims to the West, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad (Georgetown University) 15. CONTEMPORARY ISLAM: Reformation Or Revolution?, John L. Esposito (Georgetown University) Chronology Select Bibliography Contributors Image Sources Index