The New Cultural Atlas of The Islamic World
The New Cultural Atlas of The Islamic World
Editor: MacEachern, Sally
Publication Year: 2010
Publisher: Windmill Books (Andromeda International)
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-78121-094-9
Category: Religion & Theology - Islam
Image Count:
86
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
This informative reference book uses specially drawn maps to explain how Muslim society, culture, and history rose in the second millennium to have a fully global significance.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM
- REVELATION AND MUSLIM HISTORY
- The First Nine Centuries
- The nomad invasions
- The widening Islamic world
- Islamic life: the law
- Islamic life: mysticism
- Mystical Knowledge
- Transmission of Islamic culture
- The 16th and 17th Centuries
- The Safavid Empire
- Shiism and the Safavid state
- The blossoming of Iranian art
- Safavid painting
- Isfahan: City of Shah Abbas
- The Mughal Empire
- The pious strive to defend Islam
- Cultural expression of synthesis
- Mughal Moods
- Garden Tombs
- The Ottoman Empire
- The pious and the state
- Cultural face of the Sharia state
- The Buildings of Sinan
- Further Islamic Lands
- Southeast Asia
- Africa
- Central Asia and China
- Madrasas of Central Asia
- Mosques in China
- Decline, Reform, and Revival
- Reform and revival
- The Naqshbandiya in Asia
- The Khalwatiya and Idrisiya
- Local movements in West Africa
- Europe's Rise and Islam's Response
- The European challenge
- Europe and the Ottoman lands
- Egypt's response
- Arab aspirations
- Iran's struggle for independence
- Other parts of the world
- RELIGIOUS LIFE
- Belief and Practice
- The Stages of Life
- The Quran
- The Mosque
- The Believer's Year
- Pilgrimage to Mecca
- ARTS OF ISLAM
- Arts and Society
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Original Bibliography