The Middle East, 600 to 1700 C.E.

Catalog description

Explores the history of the region from the rise of Islam to the eighteenth century. Emphasizes the social and cultural background and circumstances of the rise of Islam; the formation and development of the early caliphate; the rise of Islamic successor states; the age of Ottoman and Safavid “gunpowder” empires; forms of cultural expression, such as art and literature; the role of women and ethnic and religious minorities, and the integration of the Middle East into an emerging world system.