Table of Contents

Preface

1  Introduction: What is a Complex Society?

Part I  The Pre-Industrial Pattern

2  Socio-economic Organization

3  The State

4  Politics

5  Culture

6  Society and the Individual

7  Religion

Part II  The Departure from the Pattern

8  The Oddity of Europe

9  Modernity

Further Reading

Index

About the Author

Patricia Crone was Mellon Professor of Islamic History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA.