TY  - GEN
AU  -  Berkey, Jonathan Porter.
ED  -  American Council of Learned Societies.
TI  -  The formation of Islam: religion and so ciety in the Near East, 600-1800 
T2  -  Themes in Islamic history
PY  - 0000/// 2 003
CY  -  Cambridge [U.K.],  New York
PB  -  Cambridge University Press
KW  -  Islam
KW  -  Middle East
KW  -  History
KW  -  Religion
KW  -  Civilization
N1  -  Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-275) and index;  Part I. The Near East before Islam: -- Introduction -- Religions of late antiquity -- Arabia before Islam -- Early seventh century -- Part II. The Emergence of Islam, 600-750: -- Approaches and problems -- Orig ins of the Muslim community -- Early Islam in the Near East -- Umayyad period -- Beginnings of sectarianism -- Non-Muslims of early Islam -- ' Abbasid revolution -- Part III. The Consolidation of Islam, 750-1000: - - Issues of Islamic identity -- Religion and politics -- Shi'ism -- For mation of Sunni traditionalism -- Asceticism and mysticism -- Non-Musli m communities -- Part IV. Medieval Islam, 1000-1500: -- Medieval Islami c Near East -- Sunni 'revival'? -- Common patterns in social and politi cal organization -- Modes of justice -- Transmission of religious knowl edge -- Sufism -- Popular religion -- Epilogue: -- From medieval to mod ern Islam;  Electronic text and image data;  Ann Arbor, Mich.;  University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing;  2012;  Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text;  ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]);  Mode of a ccess: Intranet
UR  -  htt p://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.08967
ER  -