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.