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The New Cambridge History of Islam
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Introduction Maribel Fierro; Part I. Al-Andalus, North and West Africa: 1. Al-Andalus and the Maghrib (from the fifth/eleventh century to the fall of the Almoravids) María Jesús Viguera-Molins; 2. The central lands of North Africa and Sicily, until the beginning of the Almohad period Michael Brett; 3. The Almohads (524–646/1130–1248) and the Hafsids (627–932/1229–1526) Maribel Fierro; 4. The post-Almohad dynasties in al-Andalus and the Maghrib (seventh-ninth/thirteenth-fifteenth centuries) Fernando Rodríguez Mediano; 5. West Africa and its early empires Ulrich Rebstock; Part II. Egypt and Syria: 6. Bilād al-Shām, from the Fatimid conquest to the fall of the Ayyubids (359–658/970–1260) Anne-Marie Eddé; 7. The Fatimid caliphate (358–567/969–1171) and the Ayyubids in Egypt (567–648/1171–1250) Yaacov Lev; 8. The Mamluks in Egypt and Syria: the Turkish Mamluk sultanate (648–784/1250–1382) and the Circassian Mamluk sultanate (784–923/1382–1517) Amalia Levanoni; 9. Western Arabia and Yemen (fifth/eleventh century to the Ottoman conquest) Esther Peskes; Part III. Muslim Anatolia and the Ottoman Empire: 10. The Turks in Anatolia before the Ottomans Gary Leiser; 11. The rise of the Ottomans Kate Fleet; 12. The Ottoman Empire (tenth/sixteenth century) Colin Imber; 13. The Ottoman Empire. The age of 'political households' (eleventh-twelfth/seventeenth-eighteenth centuries) Soraiya Faroqhi; 14. Egypt and Syria under the Ottomans Bruce Masters; 15. Western Arabia and Yemen during the Ottoman period Bernard Haykel; Part IV. North and West Africa: 16. Sharīfian rule in Morocco (tenth-twelfth/sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) Stephen Cory; 17. West Africa (tenth-twelfth/sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) Ulrich Rebstock; 18. Ottoman Maghrib Houari Touati; Part V. Rulers, Soldiers, Peasants, Scholars and Traders: 19. State formation and organization Michael Brett; 20. Conversion to Islam. From the 'age of conversions' to the millet system Mercedes García-Arenal; 21. Taxation and armies Albrecht Fuess; 22. Trade; 22A. Muslim trade in the Late Medieval Mediterranean world Olivia Remie Constable; 22B. Overland trade in the western Islamic world (fifth-ninth/eleventh-fifteenth centuries) John L. Meloy; 22C. Trade in the Ottoman lands to 1215/1800 Bruce Masters; 23. The 'ulamā' Manuela Marín; Bibliography.

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A history of the Western Islamic lands from the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries.

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Maribel Fierro is a Research Professor at the Center of Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid. Her previous publications include Al-Andalus: saberes e intercambios culturales (2001), Abd al-Rahman III, The First Cordoban Caliph (2005), Los almohades: problemas y perspectivas (as co-editor, 2005) and El cuerpo derrotado: cómo trataban musulmanes y cristianos a los enemigos vencidos (Península Ibérica, ss. VIII-XIII) (as co-editor, 2008).

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