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A history of the Islamic world, 600-1800 : empire, dynastic formations, and heterogeneities in pre-modern Islamic West-Asia / Jo Van Steenbergen

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Steenbergen, J. van
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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©2021
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xxii, 426 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 26 cm

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Contents
Introduction: Islamic West-Asia, Late Antique imperial and 'medieval'-early modern dynastic formations, and a new history of the Islamic world. Wave 1 7th-10th centuries: Late Antiquity and Arabo-Islamic imperial formation -- 1. West-Asia in Late Antiquity: Roman, Persian, and Arabian leaderships (6th-7th centuries) -- Introduction: between jahiliyya and Late Antiquity -- 1. The Roman Empire on the eve of the Arabian expansion -- 2. The Sasanian Empire on the eve of the Arabian expansion -- 3. The clash of the Titans -- 4. Arabia on the eve of the Arabian expansion -- 4.1. From Nabataeans to Jafnids and Nasrids -- 4.2. From Arabian ashraf to the Banu Quraysh -- 2. The prophet Muhammad and the Arabian leadership of Medina (610-61) -- Introduction: the challenges of early Islamic historiography -- 1. The life of Muhammad: an overview -- 1.1. Muhammad in the margins of Meccan leaderships -- 1.2. Muhammad at the center of Medinan leaderships -- 2. The leadership of Medina: succession and fitna -- 2.1. Authority and succession -- 2.2. Tension and fitna -- 3. The Arabian imperial formation of the Umayyads (661-750) -- Introduction: fitna and the formation of a patrimonial empire -- 1. The complexity of Umayyad authority -- 2. Mu 'awiya and the Umayyad-Sufyanids -- 3. 'Abd al-Malik and the Umayyad-Marwanids -- 4. Arabian expansions and Late Antique transformations (7th-8th centuries) -- Introduction: Ghazw, Futuh, and Late Antique imperial formation -- 1. Arabian expansions -- 1.1. The charismatic phase -- 1.2. The patrimonial phase -- 2. Late Antique transformations -- 2.1. The charismatic phase -- 2.2. The patrimonial phase -- 5. The 'lassical' period of the Abbasids: Late Antique imperial formation and the triumph of the east (750-908) -- Introduction: Fitna and the formation of a patrimonial-bureaucratic empire -- 1. Anti-Marwanid activism and Abbasid empowerment -- 1.1. The third fitna -- 1.2. The first Abbasid caliphs -- 2. The great Abbasid fitna and the reigns of al-Ma'mun and al-Mu'tasim -- 2.1. The great Abbasid fitna -- 2.2. The reigns of al-Ma-mun and al-Mu'tasim -- 3. The Abbasid 'middle period' (842-908) -- 3.1. Centralization and disintegration -- 3.2. New leadership and Abbasid restoration -- 6. Late Antique patrimonial-bureaucratic formation in Islamic West-Asia: the construction of Arabo-Islamic urbanities, authorities, and courts (8th-10th centuries) -- Introduction: norms, ideals, and discourses of power and belonging in a Late Antique context -- 1. Abbasid urbanities -- 1.1. Chains of imperial urbanization -- 1.2. Chains of imperial elite formation -- 1.2.1. Chains of Arabo-Islamic knowledge traditions -- 1.2.2. Chains of literary knowledge traditions -- 1.2.3. Chains of ancient knowledge traditions -- 2. Abbasid courts, courtiers, and agents -- 2.1. Shackles of Abbasid agents -- 2.2. Shackles of Abbasid courtiers and relatives -- 7. Abbasid imperial transformations and post-Abbasid fragmentation (9th-11th centuries) -- Introduction: the end of Late Antique imperial formation -- 1. Abbasid imperial transformations in the 9th and 10th centuries: the 'autonomization' of Abbasid agents and amirs -- 1.1. Abbasid amirs in Iraq -- 1.2. Abbasid amirs outside Iraq -- 1.2.1. Abbasid amirs and the Arabian west -- 1.2.2. Abbasid amirs and the Arabo-Persian east -- 2. Post-Abbasid fragmentation in the 10th and 11th centuries: the emergence of new elites and discourses of belonging -- 2.1. Post-Abbasid amirs, kings, and sultans in the Arabo-Persian east -- 2.2. Post-Abbasid imams and caliphs in the Arabian west -- Wave 2 11th-18th centuries: middle period, early modernity, and Turkish, Mongol, Turko-Mongol, and Turkmen dynastic formations -- 8. 'Medieval' transformations across Islamic West-Asia: the Turkish dynasty of the Seljuks and networks of Perso-Iranian Viziers (1038-1194) -- Introduction: Sunni Turkmen, Perso-Iranian Viziers, and their symbiotic relationships -- 1. Turks and Seljuks between Turkmen and patrimonial transformations -- 1.1. Turkmen conquest practices and dynastic formation in Transoxania, Khurasan, and Iran -- 1.2. Seljuk dynastic and patrimonial transformations between Turkmen bands and post-Abbasid courts in the later 11th century -- 1.2.1. Turkmen patriarchal authority and Seljuk dynastic practice -- 1.2.2. Seljuk patrimonial households and post-Abbasid courts, courtiers, and agents -- 1.3. Malikshahid fragmentation between the Great Seljuk west and east: sultans, amirs, atabegs, and others in the 12th century -- 1.3.1. The sultanate of Iraq and its Seljuk atabegs -- 1.3.2. The Seljuk east between Sanjar and the Khwarazm Shahs -- 2. Networks of Perso-Iranian viziers, urban elites, local resources, and Islamic infrastructures -- 2.1. The expansion of Seljuk actors between Transoxania and Iraq -- 2.2. Nizam al-Mulk between Seljuk tr.505. 00 14. Early modern dynastic formations: (Post-)Safavids, Ottomans, and many others (17th-18th centuries) -- Introduction: situating early modernity, 'gunpowder empires', and narratives of decline -- 1. Early modern dynastic formations from Azerbaijan to Khurasan -- 1.1. Safavid dynastic formation (1587-1722) -- 1.2. Post-Safavid disintegration, conquest practices, and the rise of alternative leaderships -- 2. Early modern Ottoman dynastic formation from Constantinople to Cairo -- 2.1. Dynastic formation in a changing Eurasian world -- 2.2. Dynastic formation in a changing Ottoman World -- 2.2.1. Ottomanization and bureaucratic-patrimonial formation in the dynastic center -- 2.2.2. Ottomanization and 'autonomization' from Bagdad to Cairo -- 2.3. Ottomanization, stabilization, and a preview of the challenges of modernity. r between Egypt and the Jazira -- 2.2. Saladin and the Ayyubids -- 2.2.1. Saladin and the reconfigurations of power in Egypt, Syria, and the Jazira -- 2.2.2. Saladin's heirs and the contested stabilization of Ayyubid patriarchal authorities -- 10. 'Medieval' transformations in West-Asia's Nile-to-Euphrates Zone -- Part 2: the Cairo Sultanate and 'the reign of the Turks' (c. 1250-1517) -- Introduction: from 'the Mamluk Empire' to the Cairo sultanate -- 1. Ayyubid transitions and Salihiyya empowerment -- 2. Post-Ayyubid leaderships and patrimonial formation in the 13th and 14th centuries -- 2.1. Post-Ayyubid patrimonial formation and trans-regional integration -- 2.2. Post-Ayyubid dynastic leaderships: from the Salihiyya to the Qalawunids -- 3. 'Turko-Circassian' leaderships and patrimonial-bureaucratic formation in the long 15th century -- 3.1. The contested stabilization of patrimonial-bureaucratic leaderships -- 3.2. The contested construction of Turko-Circassian leaderships -- 3.3. 15th-century renegotiations of trans-regional integration -- 11. 'Medieval' transformations between Transoxania and Asia Minor -- Part 1: Mongol and post-Mongol conquest practices and HüIegüid, post-Hülegüid, and Ottoman dynastic formations (13th-16th centuries) -- Introduction: situating 'medieval' Islamic West-Asia between Transoxania and Asia Minor and its Mongol and post-Mongol leaderships -- 1. Chinggisid conquest practices and dynastic formations in Islamic West-Asia -- 1.1. Mongol and Chinggisid conquest practices and dynastic formations in Eurasia -- 1.2. Chinggisid conquest practices in Islamic West-Asia -- 2. Hülegüid dynastic formation in Islamic West-Asia -- 3. Post-Hülegüid dynastic formations and conquest practices in Islamic West-Asia -- 3.1. Post-Hüleguid dynastic formations and conquest practices between Tabriz and Herat -- 3.2. Post-Hülegüid conquest practices and dynastic formations in and beyond Asia Minor: the complex case of Ottoman stabilization in Islamic West-Asia's northwestern marches -- 3.2.1. Twelve generations of Ottoman conquest practices and charismatic leadership (c. 1290-1595) -- 3.2.2. Twelve generations of dynastic practices and patrimonial formation -- 3.2.2.1. Ottoman dynastic practices of reproduction -- 3.2.2.2. Ottoman patrimonial formation in the dynastic center -- 3.2.2.3. Ottoman patrimonial formation in the dynastic domains -- 12. 'Medieval' transformations between Transoxania and Asia Minor -- Part 2: Turko-Mongol and Turkmen conquest practices and dynastic formations (15th-16th centuries) -- Introduction: situating 'medieval' Islamic West-Asia and its Turko-Mongol and Turkmen leaderships of Timurids, Qara and Aq Qoyunlu, and Safavids between Transoxania and Asia Minor -- 1. Turko-Mongol conquest practices and dynastic formations -- 1.1. Timur's Chaghadayid conquest practices -- 1.2. Timurid dynastic formation and post-nomadic conquest practices -- 2. Turkmen conquest practices and dynastic formations -- 2.1. Uzun Hasan's Aq Qoyunlu conquest practices -- 2.2. Isma'il's conquest practices and early Safavid dynastic formation -- 13. 'Medieval' symbiotic transformations in Islamic West-Asia: the construction of heterogeneous urbanities, ambiguous authorities and dynastic courts (12th-16th centuries) -- Introduction: norms, ideals, and discourses of power and belonging in 'medieval' West-Asia -- Intellectual networks of 'medieval' normativity and heterogeneity -- Social networks of 'medieval' heterogeneity and multiple identities -- Dynastic networks of 'medieval' value systems -- Dynastic networks of 'medieval' infrastructures -- 1. 'Medieval' urbanities in flux -- 1.1. Networks of exchange, chains of commodities, and everyday experiences -- 1.2. Networks of scholars and men of religion -- 2. 'Medieval' courts and courtiers between dynastic flux and stabilization -- 2.1. 'Medieval' dynastic courts -- 2.2. 'Medieval' royal households -- 2.3. 'Medieval' non-royal households -- 2.4. 'Medieval' royal patronage and 14. Early modern dynastic formations: (Post-)Safavids, Ottomans, and many others (17th-18th centuries) -- Introduction: situating early modernity, 'gunpowder empires', and narratives of decline -- 1. Early modern dynastic formations from Azerbaijan to Khurasan -- 1.1. Safavid dynastic formation (1587-1722) -- 1.2. Post-Safavid disintegration, conquest practices, and the rise of alternative leaderships -- 2. Early modern Ottoman dynastic formation from Constantinople to Cairo -- 2.1. Dynastic formation in a changing Eurasian world -- 2.2. Dynastic formation in a changing Ottoman World -- 2.2.1. Ottomanization and bureaucratic-patrimonial formation in the dynastic center -- 2.2.2. Ottomanization and 'autonomization' from Bagdad to Cairo -- 2.3. Ottomanization, stabilization, and a preview of the challenges of modernity. r between Egypt and the Jazira -- 2.2. Saladin and the Ayyubids -- 2.2.1. Saladin and the reconfigurations of power in Egypt, Syria, and the Jazira -- 2.2.2. Saladin's heirs and the contested stabilization of Ayyubid patriarchal authorities -- 10. 'Medieval' transformations in West-Asia's Nile-to-Euphrates Zone -- Part 2: the Cairo Sultanate and 'the reign of the Turks' (c. 1250-1517) -- Introduction: from 'the Mamluk Empire' to the Cairo sultanate -- 1. Ayyubid transitions and Salihiyya empowerment -- 2. Post-Ayyubid leaderships and patrimonial formation in the 13th and 14th centuries -- 2.1. Post-Ayyubid patrimonial formation and trans-regional integration -- 2.2. Post-Ayyubid dynastic leaderships: from the Salihiyya to the Qalawunids -- 3. 'Turko-Circassian' leaderships and patrimonial-bureaucratic formation in the long 15th century -- 3.1. The contested stabilization of patrimonial-bureaucratic leaderships -- 3.2. The contested construction of Turko-Circassian leaderships -- 3.3. 15th-century renegotiations of trans-regional integration -- 11. 'Medieval' transformations between Transoxania and Asia Minor -- Part 1: Mongol and post-Mongol conquest practices and HüIegüid, post-Hülegüid, and Ottoman dynastic formations (13th-16th centuries) -- Introduction: situating 'medieval' Islamic West-Asia between Transoxania and Asia Minor and its Mongol and post-Mongol leaderships -- 1. Chinggisid conquest practices and dynastic formations in Islamic West-Asia -- 1.1. Mongol and Chinggisid conquest practices and dynastic formations in Eurasia -- 1.2. Chinggisid conquest practices in Islamic West-Asia -- 2. Hülegüid dynastic formation in Islamic West-Asia -- 3. Post-Hülegüid dynastic formations and conquest practices in Islamic West-Asia -- 3.1. Post-Hüleguid dynastic formations and conquest practices between Tabriz and Herat -- 3.2. Post-Hülegüid conquest practices and dynastic formations in and beyond Asia Minor: the complex case of Ottoman stabilization in Islamic West-Asia's northwestern marches -- 3.2.1. Twelve generations of Ottoman conquest practices and charismatic leadership (c. 1290-1595) -- 3.2.2. Twelve generations of dynastic practices and patrimonial formation -- 3.2.2.1. Ottoman dynastic practices of reproduction -- 3.2.2.2. Ottoman patrimonial formation in the dynastic center -- 3.2.2.3. Ottoman patrimonial formation in the dynastic domains -- 12. 'Medieval' transformations between Transoxania and Asia Minor -- Part 2: Turko-Mongol and Turkmen conquest practices and dynastic formations (15th-16th centuries) -- Introduction: situating 'medieval' Islamic West-Asia and its Turko-Mongol and Turkmen leaderships of Timurids, Qara and Aq Qoyunlu, and Safavids between Transoxania and Asia Minor -- 1. Turko-Mongol conquest practices and dynastic formations -- 1.1. Timur's Chaghadayid conquest practices -- 1.2. Timurid dynastic formation and post-nomadic conquest practices -- 2. Turkmen conquest practices and dynastic formations -- 2.1. Uzun Hasan's Aq Qoyunlu conquest practices -- 2.2. Isma'il's conquest practices and early Safavid dynastic formation -- 13. 'Medieval' symbiotic transformations in Islamic West-Asia: the construction of heterogeneous urbanities, ambiguous authorities and dynastic courts (12th-16th centuries) -- Introduction: norms, ideals, and discourses of power and belonging in 'medieval' West-Asia -- Intellectual networks of 'medieval' normativity and heterogeneity -- Social networks of 'medieval' heterogeneity and multiple identities -- Dynastic networks of 'medieval' value systems -- Dynastic networks of 'medieval' infrastructures -- 1. 'Medieval' urbanities in flux -- 1.1. Networks of exchange, chains of commodities, and everyday experiences -- 1.2. Networks of scholars and men of religion -- 2. 'Medieval' courts and courtiers between dynastic flux and stabilization -- 2.1. 'Medieval' dynastic courts -- 2.2. 'Medieval' royal households -- 2.3. 'Medieval' non-royal households -- 2.4. 'Medieval' royal patronage
Summary
"A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800 supplies a fresh and unique survey of the formation of the Islamic world and the key developments that characterize this broad region's history from late antiquity up to the beginning of the modern era. Containing two chronological parts and fourteen chapters, this impressive overview explains how different tides in Islamic history washed ashore diverse sets of leadership groups, multiple practices of power and authority, and transformed imperial and dynastic discourses in a theocratic age. A text that transcends many of today's popular stereotypes of the premodern Islamic past, the volume takes a holistically and theoretically informed approach for understanding, interpreting and teaching premodern Islamic history. Jo Van Steenbergen identifies the Asian connectedness of the socio-cultural landscapes between the Nile in the southwest to the Bosphorus in the northwest, and the Oxus (Amu Darya) and Jaxartes (Syr Darya) in the northeast to the Indus in the southeast. This abundantly illustrated book also offers maps and dynastic tables, enabling students to gain an informed understanding of this broad region of the world. This book is an essential text for undergraduate classes on Islamic History, Middle East Studies, and Religious History"--
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9780415660327 paperback
0415660327 paperback
9780415660310 hardcover
0415660319 hardcover
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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