The rise of Islam. Cradle of Islam
The Arab conquests and the age of empire
The Abbasids and the rise of Baghdad
Al-Andalus: Islam in Spain
The mysticism of the Sufis
Islam on the periphery: travels in Africa and Asia
The age of the three great Muslim empires. The Ottomans
The Safavids and Shi'ism: Persia reunified
Islam in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Creation of the nation-states
Islam and the West: facing difficult times
Afterword. The challenge of the future
Key dates in Islamic history
Key figures and dynasties in Islamic history
Glossary of Islamic terms.
