Worlds of Islam
a global history
$118.44
- Hardcover
608 pages
- Release Date
19 February 2026
Summary
A History of Faith: Exploring 1400 Years of Islam
An expansive history of Islam, tracing the 1400-year evolution of a diverse community of faith and its place in the modern world.
From its birth in seventh-century Arabia, Islam has been a faith on the move. In Worlds of Islam, James McDougall explores its origins and transformations from Late Antiquity to the digital age.
Over the span of a thousand years, armies, missionaries, and merchants carried it to the edges o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241528488 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241528488 |
| Author: | James McDougall |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 19 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 1.08kg |
| Dimensions: | 244mm x 166mm x 39mm |
About The Author
James McDougall
James McDougall has taught history at Princeton; the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; and Oxford, where he has been a Fellow of Trinity College since 2009, and where from 2018 to 2025 he was Professor of Modern and Contemporary History. The author of two previous books, his writing has appeared in The Guardian, Foreign Affairs, and The New Statesman.
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