Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of maps
• List of genealogical tables
• Preface to the first edition
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Notes on names, titles and dates
• 1 The matrix of the Muslim world: the Near East in the early seventh century
• 2 The birth of the Islamic state
• 3 Conquest and division in the time of the Rāshidūn caliphs
• 4 The Umayyad caliphate
• 5 The early ‘Abbasid caliphate
• 6 The middle ‘Abbasid caliphate
• 7 The early Islamic economy
• 8 The structure of politics in the Muslim commonwealth
• 9 The Buyid confederation
• 10 The Kurds
• 11 The Hamdanids
• 12 Bedouin political movements and dynasties
• 13 The Eastern Iranian world in the tenth and early eleventh centuries
• 14 Early Islamic Egypt and the Fatimid empire
• Postscript: the coming of the Seljuks
• Principal sources for the history of the Near East, 600–1050
• Suggested further reading
• Glossary
• Index