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This new edition of one of the most widely used course books on Islamic civilizations around the world has been substantially revised to incorporate the new scholarship and insights of the last twenty-five years. Ira Lapidus' history explores the beginnings and transformations of Islamic civilizations in the Middle East and details Islam's worldwide diffusion. The history is divided into four parts. Part I is a comprehensive account of pre-Islamic late antiquity; the beginnings of Islam; the early Islamic empires; and Islamic religious, artistic, legal and intellectual cultures. Part II deals with the construction in the Middle East of Islamic religious communities and states to the fifteenth century. Part III includes the history to the nineteenth century of Islamic North Africa and Spain; the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires; and other Islamic societies in Asia and Africa. Part IV accounts for the impact of European commercial and imperial domination on Islamic societies and traces the development of the modern national state system and the simultaneous Islamic revival from the early nineteenth century to the present.

"This third edition of Ira M. Lapidus's classic A History of Islamic Societies has been substantially revised to incorporate the insights of new scholarship and updated to include historical developments in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Lapidus's history explores the beginnings and transformations of Islamic civilizations in the Middle East and details Islam's worldwide diffusion to Africa; Spain; Turkey and the Balkans; Central, South and Southeast Asia; and North America, situating Islamic societies within their global, political, and economic contexts. It accounts for the impact of European imperialism on Islamic societies and traces the development of the modern national state system and the simultaneous Islamic revival from the early nineteenth century to the present. This book is essential for readers seeking to understand Muslim peoples"--

Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Figures -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments to the first edition of A History of Islamic Societies -- Acknowledgments to the second edition of A History of Islamic Societies -- Publisher's preface -- Introduction to Islamic societies -- PART I THE BEGINNINGS OF ISLAMIC CIVILIZATIONS -- THE MIDDLE EAST FROM c. 600 TO c. 1000 -- 1 Middle Eastern societies before Islam -- Ancient, Roman, and Persian empires -- The Roman Empire -- The Sasanian Empire -- Religion and society before Islam -- Religions and empires -- Women, family, and society (co-author, Lena Salaymeh) -- Marriage, divorce, and sexual morality -- Property and inheritance -- Seclusion and veiling -- Conclusion -- THE PREACHING OF ISLAM -- 2 Historians and the sources -- 3 Arabia -- Clans and kingdoms -- Mecca -- Language, poetry, and the gods -- 4 Muhammad: preaching, community, and state formation -- The life of the Prophet -- The Quran -- The Judeo-Christian and Arabian heritage -- Community and politics -- Conclusion: the umma of Islam -- THE ARAB-MUSLIM IMPERIUM (632-945) -- 5 Introduction to the Arab-Muslim empires -- 6 The Arab-Muslim conquests and the socioeconomic bases of empire -- The conquests -- The administration of the new empire -- 7 Regional developments: economic and social change -- Iraq -- Syria and Mesopotamia -- Egypt -- Iran -- The integration of conquering and conquered peoples -- Conversions to Islam -- Arabic and other Middle Eastern languages -- 8 The caliphate to 750 -- The Rightly Guided Caliphs -- The Umayyad monarchy (661-685) -- The imperial caliphate: the Marwanids (685-750) -- The crisis of the dynasty and the rise of the `Abbasids -- 9 The 'Abbasid Empire -- Baghdad -- `Abbasid administration: the central government -- Provincial government.

First published in 1988, Ira Lapidus' A History of Islamic Societies has become a classic in the field, enlightening students, scholars, and others with a thirst for knowledge about one of the world's great civilizations. This book, based on fully revised and updated parts one and two of this monumental work,describes the transformations of Islamic societies from their beginning in the seventh century, through their diffusion across the globe, into the challenges of the nineteenth century. The story focuses on the organization of families and tribes, religious groups and states, showing how they were transformed by their interactions with other religious and political communities. The book concludes with the European commercial and imperial interventions that initiated a new set of transformations in the Islamic world, and the onset of the modern era. Organized in narrative sections for the history of each major region, with innovative, analytic summary introductions and conclusions, this book is a unique endeavour

In recent decades there has been an extraordinary flourishing of transnational and global Islamic movements. Most of these are religious reform and missionary movements; some are political networks working to form Islamic states. Yet on closer examination we find that universalistic Islamic movements are almost always embedded in national state and parochial settings. Muslim, and national, ethnic, tribal and local identities blend together. This blending of universalistic and particularistic affiliations has deep‐rooted precedents in Islamic history. The original Muslim community of Medina represented a monotheistic vision encadred in a community of clans. The universal empire of the Caliphate gave rise to schools, brotherhoods, and sectarian communities. Sufi reform teachings of the late seventeenth to the twentieth century defined Islamo‐tribal movements. In the twentieth century universalistic Islamic reformism inspired nationalism and anti‐colonialism. The paper concludes with some comments on the mechanisms by which historical and cultural precedents are carried into modern times.