Administrative And Cultural History of Islam

The Purpose of this book is to describe the adminstrative and cultural aspects of Islamic history in a concise yet comprehensive way. This book deals not only with the political and economic but gives a full account of the social and cultural history from the City state of Madina to the Royal court of Ispahan. The author has tried to present a true picture of the Islamic civilization, rich with immense variety of literature and arts.
The growth and development of Islamic culture, the real spirit of Islamic sciences and all the branches of knowledge such as Astronomy, Mathematics, Geography, botany, Medicine, Agriculture, Agronomy and Education are dealt within the following chapters.
This book comprises of six parts - the first part begins with Foundations of the Islamic State, covers the administrative and political institutions of the righteous Caliphate. The second deals with the Umayyads and the third is the history of intellectual development under the Abbasids of Baghdad. The fourth describes the growth of Moorish Civilization. The fifth deals with the political and cultural history of the Fatimids. The sixth covers the political and cultural heritage of Safavids of Iran. The last part deals with general topics, Islamic Culture, science, culture and eminent scholars of Medieval Islam. The author has also in order to give the background briefly, dealt with its political and economic history. The purpose of this book is to describe the administrative and cultural aspects of Islamic history in a concise yet comprehensive way.
In order to give a brief background, the author has also dealt with the subject of the Islamic political and economic history
Contents
Chapter 1: Foundation of the Islamic state
Chapter 2: Administration under the HOly Prophet
Chapter 3: Succession to the Rule in Islam
Chapter 4: Administration under the pious Caliphs
Chapter 5: The Umayyad Caliphate
Chapter 6: Central Administrative Structure under Umayyads
Chapter 7: Social Structure under Umayyads
Chapter 8: Nature of Arabic Literature
Chapter 9: Early Medieval Literature
Chapter 10: Education Under the Umayyads
Chapter 11: History of ISlamic Architecture
Chapter 12: Umayyads Architecture
Chapter 13: The Abbasids
Chapter 14: Central Administrative Structure under the early Abbasids
Chapter 15: Architecture under the Abbasids
Chapter 16: Abbasids Literature
Chapter 17: Education under Abbasids
Chapter 18: Music and Calligraphy under the Abbasids
Chapter 19: Philosophy
Chapter 20: Geography
Chapter 21: Scientific Progress under Abbasids
Chapter 22: Literary and scientific development under Al-Mamun
Chapter 23: Minor Art under Umayyads and Abbasids
Chapter 24: The Umayyads in Spain
Chapter 25: Society and Administration
Chapter 26: Architecture of Muslim Spain
Chapter 27: Arabic - SPainish Literature
Chapter 28: Educational and Scientific Development under Moors
Chapter 29: The Phylosophy and Music
Chapter 30: Moorish Art
Chapter 31: Influence of Islam on Europe
Chapter 32: The Fatimids
Chapter 33: Architecture under Fatimids
Chapter 34: Scientific Development under Fatimids
Chapter 35: Minor Art under Fatimids
Chapter 36: Safavids
Chapter 37: The Architecture of The Safavids Empire
Chapter 38: Minor Art under Safavids
Chapter 39: Eminent Scholars of Medieval Islam
Chapter 40: Islamic Culture
Chapter 41: Science and Cultre (Islamic Point of View)
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