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050	0	0	_aDS35.63 _b.C35 1996
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100			_aRobinson Francis
245	0	4	_aThe Cambridge illustrated history of the Islamic world / _cedited by Francis Robinson.
260			_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c1996.
300			_axxiii, 328 p. : _bill., maps (some col.) ; _c26 cm.
500			_aInclude Index
520			_aFor most of the period from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries, the Muslim world was dominant in terms both of geographical spread and creativity. Today Muslims account for one fifth of the world's population. Yet there is widespread misunderstanding in the West of what Islam really is. Francis Robinson and his team set out to address this paradox. Dismantling the western perception of Islam as a monolithic culture, they examine the economic basis of Muslim societies.
520			_a- their social ordering, their forms of knowledge and its transmission, and their expression in art, architecture and in the courtly arts and their modern developments. Particular emphasis is placed on the interrelationship between the Islamic world and the West - both share many of the same religious, intellectual and cultural roots. The book demonstrates that it is only recently that western ways came to dominate. Both civilizations owe much to one another.
700	1		_aRobinson, Francis.
710	2		_aThomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section) _5DLC
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