Islam: a new history from Muhammad to the present

Introduction

Part I: Foundations. The Quran and the birth of a community of believers

The Umayyad dynasty and the birth of an imperial religion

Abbasid Baghdad : crucible of a multiconfessional civilization

The three caliphates of the year 1000

Part II: Expansion. Invasions and reconfigurations of the Muslim world, eleventh-thirteenth centuries

The world of Ibn Battuta

Muslim empires (fourteenth-seventeenth centuries)

Part III: Modernities. Colonization and its discontents, 1798-1918

Decolonization, nationalism, and the emergence of political Islam in the twentieth century

Between reform and radicalism : being Muslim in the twenty-first century.