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Chase F. Robinson Islamic civilization in thirty lives
the first 1,000 years
The religious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers and philosophers of the early Muslim world helped to shape the 1,400-year-long development of today's second-largest world religion. But who were these people? What do we know of their lives, and the ways in which they influenced their societies? Chase F. Robinson draws on the long tradition in Muslim scholarship of commemorating in writing the biographies of notable figures, but weaves these ambitious lives together to create a rich...
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Engels | Thames & Hudson, London | 2018
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G.W. Bowersock The crucible of Islam
Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century CE. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from the Iberian peninsula to India. Today, Muslims account for nearly a quarter of the global population. G. W. Bowersock seeks to illuminate this most obscure and yet most dynamic period in the history of Islam--from the mid-sixth to mid-seventh century--exploring why arid Arabia proved to be such fertile ground for Muhammad's prophetic message, and why that message...
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Engels | 220 pagina's | Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts | 2017
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Salahuddin Ahmed A dictionary of Muslim names
Engels | 351 pagina's | New York University Press, New York | 1999
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David Douglas Duncan The world of Allah
Engels | 280 pagina's | Houghton Mifflin, Boston | 1982
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