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This book is about Islamic social history. It flies the colors of an essay because it represents an initial, tentative effortnot at describing Islamic social history, which has certainly been attempted before, but at formulating an integrated conceptual approach to the subject. It attempts to tie together the histories of parts of the medieval Islamic world that are more commonly treated as discrete entities by means of a number of sometimes quite speculative hypotheses based upon and inspired by a close examination of certain quantifiable aspects of medieval Arabic sources. Many of the conclusions reached through these hypotheses, such as the suggestion of a causal relationship between the conversion of a majority of a region's population and the dissolution of central Islamic government in that region or the explanation of endemic factional strife in certain areas as a virtually inevitable conflict between the descendants of early converts and the descendants of later converts, will require further corroboration. Nevertheless, the heart of the essay lies in the overall conceptual approach, and the primary effort has been placed there rather than upon the elaboration of its variou

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Author

Bulliet, Richard W.

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674732810

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Islam, Religion

Rating

3.62 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14