A History of the Muslim World: From its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity
Twelve centuries to 1800, treating the Muslim world as many connected homes rather than one civilisation moving through a single continuous story.
Cook covers roughly twelve centuries and stops around 1800, treating the Muslim world as a set of connected but distinct homes rather than as a single civilisation with one story. The sections on India and on the western Mediterranean are particularly strong, and the whole is likely to become one of the standard reference histories.
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Tyler Cowen
Mostly ends at 1800, this will become one of the standard, must-read histories of Islam and its multiple homes. The section on India, which is what I have been reading, is strongly conceptual and novel compared to other survey books such as Hourani. At the very least a good book, possibly a great book.
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