Islamic empires: fifteen cities that define a civilization (Record no. 399162)
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fixed length control field | 02224aam a2200181 4500 |
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fixed length control field | 200211b 2019 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
International Standard Book Number | 9780241199046 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 909.09767 |
Item number | M2I8 |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | Marozzi, Justin |
9 (RLIN) | 393566 |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Islamic empires: fifteen cities that define a civilization |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Allen Lane |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2019 |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New Delhi |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | xxiii, 440 p. |
Other physical details | Includes illustration, notes, bibliography and index |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc. | Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes of the Indian subcontinent, while Europe cowered feebly at the margins. For centuries the caliphate was both ascendant on the battlefield and triumphant in the battle of ideas, its cities unrivalled powerhouses of artistic grandeur, commercial power, spiritual sanctity and forward-looking thinking, in which nothing was off-limits.<br/>Islamic Empires is a history of this rich and diverse civilization told through its greatest cities over the fifteen centuries of Islam, from its earliest beginnings in Mecca in the seventh century to the astonishing rise of Doha in the twenty-first.<br/>It dwells on the most remarkable dynasties ever to lead the Muslim world - the Abbasids of Baghdad, the Umayyads of Damascus and Cordoba, the Merinids of Fez, the Ottomans of Istanbul, the Mughals of India and the Safavids of Isfahan - and some of the most charismatic leaders in Muslim history, from Saladin in Cairo and mighty Tamerlane of Samarkand to the poet-prince Babur in his mountain kingdom of Kabul and the irrepressible Maktoum dynasty of Dubai. It focuses on these fifteen cities at some of the defining moments in Islamic history: from the Prophet Mohammed receiving his divine revelations in Mecca and the First Crusade of 1099 to the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and the phenomenal creation of the merchant republic of Beirut in the nineteenth century.<br/><br/><br/>https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/283841/islamic-empires/9780241199046.html |
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Topical term or geographic name entry element | Islamic civilization |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Islamic cities and towns |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Islamic history |
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Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
Koha item type | Book |
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Dewey Decimal Classification | Not For Loan | Non-fiction | Ahmedabad | Ahmedabad | General Stacks | 17/02/2020 | 8 | 639.20 | 909.09767 M2I8 | 201465 | 17/02/2020 | 799.00 | 17/02/2020 | Book |