The Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 1a: The Central Islamic Lands from Pre-Islamic Times to the First World War

First published in 1970, The Cambridge History of Islam is the most comprehensive and ambitious collaborative survey of Islamic history and civilization yet to appear in English. On publication it was welcomed as a work useful for both reference and reading, for the general reader, student and specialist alike. It has now been reprinted, with corrections, and for ease of handling the original two hardcover volumes have each been divided into two separate paperbacks. A monograph of Muslim civilization, from before Prophet Muhammad through the post-World War II years, explicating the growth of the Arab Empire and its outward political and cultural extensions. Bibliogs Presents a reprinted version of the 1970 publication, The Cambridge history of Islam, with corrections. Provides a comprehensive survey of Islamic history and civilization through the 1960s In the history of the ancient world, Arabia has a place not unlike that of two other peninsulas in the Mediterranean region-Italy and the Balkans.