243 pages 22 cm

Translation of Der Islam originally published in Propyläen Weltgeschichte in 1963

Includes bibliographical references

Pre-Islamic Arabia -- Muhammed -- External power and internal division -- The Umayyads -- The Abbasids -- Islamic society and social religious movements -- Egypt under the Fatimids and Tulunids -- The Arab west -- The horizon of Islam: theology, philosophy, literature -- The downfall of the Caliphate -- The Latin states -- Divisions in the Islamic world -- Religious reform and Berber nationalism -- Withdrawal and mysticism at the end of the Caliphate

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