DENOIX Sylvie, RENEL Hélène (dir.).
Atlas of the Medieval Muslim Worlds.
CNRS editions
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| N° d'inventaire | 25599 |
| Format | 28.5 x 23.5 |
| Détails | 382 p., illustrated, half-cloth binding. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782271139498 |
To offer a broad panorama of the history, political and military, economic and social, religious and cultural, of the medieval Muslim worlds, from late Antiquity to the beginnings of the modern era, such is the ambition of the present Atlas, which is based on nearly two hundred original maps, at all scales, accompanied by texts, extracts from sources and illustrations.
The Islamic conquests contributed to the formation of a vast territory where Muslims held political power, dominating peoples with different customs, languages, and religions. It stretched across three continents—from al-Andalus in the west to Islamized India in the east—and opened onto two major maritime areas, the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. This atlas explores the routes traveled by merchants, pilgrims, travelers, students, and scholars; it attests to the scale of the urban phenomenon and the richness of exchanges throughout this area and accounts for its integration into a developing world economy.
Muslim communities split into different branches: Sunnis and Shiites, but also into a myriad of other minority currents that still mark the religious topography today. While fratricidal struggles were significant, conflicting relationships with various external enemies—conquests and jihads, crusades and invasions—reshaped both internal balances and external borders. The diplomatic activity that unfolded throughout Eurasia and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the circulation of ideas and literary and architectural models, bear witness, beyond commercial exchanges, to the extent of the networks developed over the centuries.
The researchers who produced this collective work, launched within the "Medieval Islam" team of the Orient & Méditerranée laboratory (CNRS), are specialists in various fields of medieval history of the Muslim worlds. They provide insight into, and understanding of, a global and connected history of the medieval Muslim worlds through a renewed historiography.
The Islamic conquests contributed to the formation of a vast territory where Muslims held political power, dominating peoples with different customs, languages, and religions. It stretched across three continents—from al-Andalus in the west to Islamized India in the east—and opened onto two major maritime areas, the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. This atlas explores the routes traveled by merchants, pilgrims, travelers, students, and scholars; it attests to the scale of the urban phenomenon and the richness of exchanges throughout this area and accounts for its integration into a developing world economy.
Muslim communities split into different branches: Sunnis and Shiites, but also into a myriad of other minority currents that still mark the religious topography today. While fratricidal struggles were significant, conflicting relationships with various external enemies—conquests and jihads, crusades and invasions—reshaped both internal balances and external borders. The diplomatic activity that unfolded throughout Eurasia and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the circulation of ideas and literary and architectural models, bear witness, beyond commercial exchanges, to the extent of the networks developed over the centuries.
The researchers who produced this collective work, launched within the "Medieval Islam" team of the Orient & Méditerranée laboratory (CNRS), are specialists in various fields of medieval history of the Muslim worlds. They provide insight into, and understanding of, a global and connected history of the medieval Muslim worlds through a renewed historiography.
The Islamic conquests contributed to the formation of a vast territory where Muslims held political power, dominating peoples with different customs, languages, and religions. It stretched across three continents—from al-Andalus in the west to Islamized India in the east—and opened onto two major maritime areas, the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. This atlas explores the routes traveled by merchants, pilgrims, travelers, students, and scholars; it attests to the scale of the urban phenomenon and the richness of exchanges throughout this area and accounts for its integration into a developing world economy.
Muslim communities split into different branches: Sunnis and Shiites, but also into a myriad of other minority currents that still mark the religious topography today. While fratricidal struggles were significant, conflicting relationships with various external enemies—conquests and jihads, crusades and invasions—reshaped both internal balances and external borders. The diplomatic activity that unfolded throughout Eurasia and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the circulation of ideas and literary and architectural models, bear witness, beyond commercial exchanges, to the extent of the networks developed over the centuries.
The researchers who produced this collective work, launched within the "Medieval Islam" team of the Orient & Méditerranée laboratory (CNRS), are specialists in various fields of medieval history of the Muslim worlds. They provide insight into, and understanding of, a global and connected history of the medieval Muslim worlds through a renewed historiography.