The Middle East in Modern World History — Ernest Tucker (2013)

Book Description

The Umayyad Caliphate — Arab Exclusivity — Defining the Umma — Early Abbasid Caliphate — The Abbasid Revolution — Establishing Abbasid Authority — Abbasids as Conservatives — Early Challenges to Abbasid Rule — Later Abbasid Caliphate — Rise of the Buyids — Pre-Islamic Nostalgia of the Buyids — Political Fragmentation and Economic Prosperity — Abbasids after the Buyids — Rise of the Seljuks — Caliph al-Nasir’s Abbasid Revival and the Mongol Invasion — Abbasid “Shadow” Caliphs: Coda to a “Golden Age”–Questions to Think About — For Further Reading

Book Details

• Author: Ernest Tucker
• Publisher: Pearson
• Published Date: 2013
• Published Year: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN-13: 9780136151524