Introduction -- Religions of late antiquity -- Arabia before Islam -- Early seventh century -- Approaches and problems -- Origins of the Muslim community -- Early Islam in the Near East -- Umayyad period -- Beginnings of sectarianism -- Non-Muslims of early Islam -- 'Abbasid revolution -- Issues of Islamic identity -- Religion and politics -- Shi'ism -- Formation of Sunni traditionalism -- Asceticism and mysticism -- Non-Muslim communities -- Medieval Islamic Near East -- Sunni 'revival'? -- Common patterns in social and political organization -- Modes of justice -- Transmission of religious knowledge -- Sufism -- Popular religion -- From medieval to modern Islam.
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