Medieval Islam: A Study in Cultural Orientation
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Edition
Reprint.
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ISBN
9788130712420
Length
vii+378p., Map; 23cm.
Subjects
Medieval Islam grew out of a series of public lectures delivered at the University of Chicago. The book aims to outline the cultural orientation of the Muslim Middle Ages, with eastern Islam as the centre of attention. It attempts to characterize the medieval Muslim’s view of himself and his defined universe, the fundamental intellectual and emotional attitude that governed his works and the mood in which he lived his life.
It strives to explain the ...