TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lassner, Jacob
TI  - Islam in the Middle Ages:  The Origins and Shaping of Classical Islamic Civilization
SN  - 9780275985691
U1  - SS80 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London
PB  - Praeger Publishers
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. Muhammad and the Origins of the Islamic	1  Community (Ummah)  1. Arabia on the Eve of Islam	3  2. Muhammad Prophet of Islam: Origins	15  3. The Prophet`s Mission: Mecca	29  4. The Prophet`s Mission: Medina	47  5. The Meccan Response and the Triumph of the Ummah	65  II. The Transformation of the Islamic Ummah	79  6. Succession, Conquest, and Expansion: The Ummah Becomes an "Arab Kingdom"	81  7. The Hashimite Restoration: A Revolution Shaped by	103  Images of an Idealized Past  8. The Split between the Hashimites: `Alids versus Abbasids/     117   Shi`ites versus Sunnites  9. Centralizing Power: The Rise of a Universal Islamic	Empire  10. Emerging Cracks within the Universal Islamic Empire  11. The Changing Political Climate: Heralding the End of the Formative Period of Medieval Islam  III. Religious Scholarship and Piety  12. The Qur`an and Its Commentators  13. The Major Themes of Muslim Scripture  14. The Formation of Islamic Law and Legal Tradition  15. The Formation of Different Schools of Islamic Law  16. Islamic Theology and Popular Religion
ER  -