Islam : A Short History

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Muhammad's world: Arabia c 610 C.E. 9

The Early Conquests 28

Expansion under the Umayyads 51

The Disintegration of the Abbasid Empire 82

The Seljuk Empire 89

The Crusader States in Palestine, Syria and

Anatolia c 11 30 94

The Mongol World (during the reign of Hulegu,

1255-65) 99

The Safavid Empire (1500-1 722) 119

The Moghul Empire (1526-1 707) 126

The Ottoman Empire 131