Islam

The history of Islam and the Muslim world in one illustrated volume, from pre-Islamic Arabia to the present day.

In 60 chapters this book follows the story of a faith and of the many societies that grew around it: Arabia before Islam, the life of the Prophet Muhammad as the earliest sources report it, the first caliphs, the Umayyads and the Abbasid golden age, the cities, schools and trade networks of the medieval world, the Turks, the Crusades and the Mongols, Islam in Africa, South …