A history of Islamic societies - Lapidus, Ira M. (New York Cambridge University Press, 1988)
The origins of Islamic civilisation : the Middle East from c.600 to c.1200 : introduction : Middle Eastern societies before the advent of Islam -- The preaching of Islam : Arabia -- The life of the Prophet -- The Arab-Muslim imperium (632-945) : The Arab conquests and the socio-economic bases of empire -- The Caliphate -- Cosmopolitan Islam : the Islam of the imperial elite -- Urban Islam : the Islam of the religious elites -- Islamic culture and the separation of state and religion -- The fall of the Abbasid empire -- From Islamic culture to Islamic society : Iran and Iraq, 945-c.1200 : The post-Abbasid Middle Eastern state system -- Muslim communities and Middle Eastern societies -- The collective ideal -- The personal ethic -- Conclusion : the Middle Eastern Islamic paradigm -- The worldwide diffusion of Islamic societies from the Tenth to the Nineteenth Century : Introduction : the Islamic world and the rise of Europe ; The Middle Eastern Islamic societies : -- Iran : the Mongol, Timurid, and Safavid empires -- The Turkish migrations and the Ottoman Empire -- The Arab Middle East -- Islamic North Africa and Spain to the nineteenth century -- Inner Asia from the Mongol conquests to the nineteenth century -- The Indian subcontinent : the Delhi Sultanates and the Mughal empire -- The formation of Islamic societies in Southeast Asia; -- Islam in Africa : Islam in Sudanic, savannah, and forest West Africa -- Islam in East Africa and the rise of European colonial empires -- The Modern Transformation : Muslim Peoples in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries : Introduction: modernity and the transformation of Muslim societies : Nationalism and Islam in the Middle East : Iran : state and religion in the modern era -- The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the modernisation of Turkey -- Egypt : secularism and Islamic modernity -- The Arab Middle East : Arabism, military states, and Islam -- North Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Secularism and Islam in Central and Southern Asia : The Indian subcontinent : India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh -- Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia -- Inner Asia under Russian and Chinese rule -- Islam in Twentieth Century Africa : Islam in West Africa -- Islam in East Africa -- Conclusion : secularised Islam and Islamic revival -- Glossary.
Keywords: Civilization, Islamic; Islamic Empire -- History; Islamic countries -- History; Islam -- History