Book contents
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Table
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Global developments
- Part II Eurasian commonalities
- Part III Growing interactions
- Part IV Expanding religious systems
- 15 The centrality of Islamic civilization
- 16 Christendom's regional systems
- 17 The spread of Buddhism
- Part V State formations
- Index
- References
15 - The centrality of Islamic civilization
from Part IV - Expanding religious systems
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Book contents
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Table
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Global developments
- Part II Eurasian commonalities
- Part III Growing interactions
- Part IV Expanding religious systems
- 15 The centrality of Islamic civilization
- 16 Christendom's regional systems
- 17 The spread of Buddhism
- Part V State formations
- Index
- References
Summary
The major civilizations of the Old World typically took shape many centuries before the beginning of this era. Islamic civilization stands apart from its peers by virtue of the fact that it emerged well over a millennium later. This chapter describes a survey of the territories that made up the domain of Islamic civilization, the Islamic world. Around the Indian Ocean, far more than in the Eurasian interior, the spread of Islam was linked to long-distance trade routes that had already developed centuries before the time of Muhammad. The Arabs of pre-Islamic times were not in fact confined to the peninsula; Arab nomads were already present in the Syrian desert, the Sinai peninsula, and the eastern desert of Egypt, thus foreshadowing the Islamic expansion. The chapter then discusses the components of Islamic civilization: Institutions and Culture.
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