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The venture of Islam: conscience and history in a world civilization, Vol. 1

Marshall G. S Hodgson 1974 © University of Chicago Press
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Series
  • ATLA Special Series
ISBN(s)
  • 9780226346830 (paper)
  • 9780226346861 (ebook)
  • 9780226346786 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Middle Eastern: General & Multiperiod
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  • Frontmatter (page N/A)
  • List of Charts (page vi)
  • List of Maps (page vii)
  • Marshall Hodgson and The Venture of Islam, by Reuben W. Smith (page viii)
  • Publisher's Note (page xi)
  • Introduction to the Study of Islamic Civilization (page 3)
  • General Prologue: The Islamic Vision in Religion and in Civilization (page 71)
  • BOOK ONE The Islamic Infusion: Genesis of a New Social Order (page 101)
  • I. The World Before Islam (page 103)
  • II. Muhammad's Challenge, 570-624 (page 146)
  • III. The Early Muslim State, 625-692 (page 187)
  • BOOK TWO The Classical Civilization of the High Caliphate (page 231)
  • Prologue to Book Two (page 233)
  • I. The Islamic Opposition, 692-750 (page 241)
  • II. The Absolutism in Flower, 750-813 (page 280)
  • III. The Shar'i Islamic Vision, c. 750-945 (page 315)
  • IV. Muslim Personal Piety: Confrontations with History and with Selfhood, c. 750-945 (page 359)
  • V. Speculation: Falsafah and Kalam, c. 750-945 (page 410)
  • VI. Adab: The Bloom of Arabic Literary Culture, c. 813-945 (page 444)
  • VII. The Dissipation of the Absolutist Tradition, 813-945 (page 473)
  • A Selective Bibliography for Further Reading (page 497)
  • Glossary of Selected Terms and Names (page 513)
  • Index to Volume I (page 519)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AHR 81.4 (Oct. 1976): 788-799 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28197610%2981%3A4%3C788%3ACOCTDO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q
CS 5.2 (Mar. 1976): 192-193 http://www.jstor.org/cgi-bin/jstor/viewitem/00943061/di973920/97p1574h
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