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      • Volume 3: The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 March 2011
      04 November 2010
      ISBN:
      9781139056137
      9780521850315
      9781107456976
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521850315
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.32kg, 756 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.073kg, 756 Pages
      • Series:
      The New Cambridge History of Islam
      Collections:
      Cambridge Histories - Religion, Cambridge Histories - Middle East & African Studies
      Subjects:
      Islam, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Religion
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    Series:
    The New Cambridge History of Islam
    Collections:
    Cambridge Histories - Religion, Cambridge Histories - Middle East & African Studies
    Subjects:
    Islam, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Religion
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    This volume traces the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth. As the faith crossed cultural boundaries, the trader and the mystic became as important as the soldier and the administrator. Distinctive Islamic idioms began to emerge from other great linguistic traditions apart from Arabic, especially in Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Swahili, Malay and Chinese. The Islamic world transformed and absorbed new influences. As the essays in this collection demonstrate, three major features distinguish the time and place from both earlier and modern experiences of Islam. Firstly, the steppe tribal peoples of central Asia had a decisive impact on the Islamic lands. Secondly, Islam expanded along the trade routes of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. Thirdly, Islam interacted with Asian spirituality, including Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Taoism and Shamanism. It was during this period that Islam became a truly world religion.

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