Hardcover
1974 · Chicago
by Hodgson, Marshall G.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1974. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xii, 532pp.; vii, 609pp.; vi, 469pp. Books present nicely with unclipped dust jackets wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Wear to jackets with rubbing, creasing, toning, and chipping to covers, corners, and edges. Sunning to spines of jackets. Gentle rubbing and bumps to corners and edges of green cloth over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text blocks. Pages of all volumes are clean and unmarked. Bindings are sound.
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ABOUT THIS SET:
The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle of the twentieth century. This work grew out of the famous course on Islamic civilization that Hodgson created and taught for many years at the University of Chicago.
Volume 1 analyzes the world before Islam, Muhammad's challenge (570-624), and the early Muslim state of 625 to 692. Hodgson then reviews the classical civilization of the High Caliphate, discussing such topics as the bloom of Arabic literary culture, Muslim personal piety, and the dissolution of the Absolutist tradition. This volume also contains a general introduction explaining the author's method and terminology; a prologue on the Islamic vision in religion and civilization; and a Foreword by Reuben Smith, who, as Hodgson's colleague and friend, finished the work after the author's death and saw it through the press.
Volume 2 investigates the establishment of an international Islamic civilization through about 1500. Volume 3 describes the second flowering of Islam: the Safavi, Timuri, and Ottoman empires. The final part of the work analyzes the widespread Islamic heritage in today's world. Each volume contains charts and maps, a glossary of terms and names, and an index.(Publisher). (Inventory #: 14830)
This set is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote.
ABOUT THIS SET:
The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle of the twentieth century. This work grew out of the famous course on Islamic civilization that Hodgson created and taught for many years at the University of Chicago.
Volume 1 analyzes the world before Islam, Muhammad's challenge (570-624), and the early Muslim state of 625 to 692. Hodgson then reviews the classical civilization of the High Caliphate, discussing such topics as the bloom of Arabic literary culture, Muslim personal piety, and the dissolution of the Absolutist tradition. This volume also contains a general introduction explaining the author's method and terminology; a prologue on the Islamic vision in religion and civilization; and a Foreword by Reuben Smith, who, as Hodgson's colleague and friend, finished the work after the author's death and saw it through the press.
Volume 2 investigates the establishment of an international Islamic civilization through about 1500. Volume 3 describes the second flowering of Islam: the Safavi, Timuri, and Ottoman empires. The final part of the work analyzes the widespread Islamic heritage in today's world. Each volume contains charts and maps, a glossary of terms and names, and an index.(Publisher). (Inventory #: 14830)