the first 1,000 years Robinson, Chase F. creator author. text bibliography biography Biography Biographies. Biographies. Biographies. cau 2016 2016 monographic eng

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270 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm Religious thinkers, political leaders, lawmakers, writers, and philosophers have shaped the 1,400-year-long development of the world's second-largest religion. But who were these people? What do we know of their lives and the ways in which they influenced their societies? In Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives, the distinguished historian of Islam, Chase F. Robinson draws on the long tradition in Muslim scholarship of commemorating in writing the biographies of notable figures, but he weaves these ambitious lives together to create a rich narrative of Islamic civilization, from the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century to the era of the world conquerer Timur and the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II in the fifteenth. Beginning in Islam's heartland, Mecca, and ranging from North Africa and Iberia in the west to Central and East Asia, Robinson not only traces the rise and fall of Islamic states through the biographies of political and military leaders who worked to secure peace or expand their power, but also discusses those who developed Islamic law, scientific thought, and literature. What emerges is a fascinating portrait of rich and diverse Islamic societies. Muhammad, the prophet (632) -- 'Ali : cousin, caliph and forefather of Shi'ism (661) -- 'A'isha : wife of the Prophet (678) -- 'Abd al-Malik : engineer of the caliphate (705) -- Ibn al-Muqaffa' : translator and essayist (759) -- Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya : renunciant and saint (801) -- al-Ma'mun : caliph-patron (833) -- 'Arib : courtesan of caliphs (890) -- al-Hallaj : 'the Truth' (922) -- al-Tabari : traditionalist rationalist (923) -- Abu Bakr al-Razi : free-thinking physician (925 or 935) -- Ibn Fadlan : intrepid envoy (fl. tenth century) -- Ibn Muqla : vizier, scribe, calligrapher? (940) -- Mahmud of Ghazna : conqueror and patron (1030) -- al-Biruni : cataloguer of nature and culture (c. 1050) -- Ibn Hazm : polemicist, polymath (1064) -- Karima al-Marwaziyya : hadith scholar (1070) -- al-Ghazali : 'Renewer' of Islam (1111) -- Abu al-Qasim Ramisht : merchant millionaire (c. 1150) -- al-Idrisi : cosmopolitan cartographer (1165) -- Saladin : anti-Crusader hero (1193) -- Ibn Rushd (Averroes) : Aristotelian monotheist (1198) -- Rumi : Sufi 'poet' (1273) -- Rashid al-Din : physician, courtier and global historian (1318) -- al-Hilli : paragon of Shi'ism ascendant (1325) -- Ibn Taymiyya : stubborn reactionary (1328) -- Timur : sheep-rustler, world-conqueror (1405) -- Ibn Khaldun : social theorist and historian (1406) -- Mehmed II : conqueror and renaissance man (1481) -- Shah Isma'il : esoteric charismatic (1524). Chase F. Robinson. Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-266) and index. aw----- Islamic civilization Intellectual life Islamic civilization Islam Zivilisation Islamic civilization Middle East Biography Middle East Intellectual life Middle East Islamische Staaten Middle East Biography Middle East Intellectual life DS36.85 .R63 2016 909.09 ROB 9780520292987 0520292987 2016944716 YDXCP 160615 20260516141526.0 19136954 eng