Medieval Islam : a study in cultural orientation / Gustave E. von Grunebaum
1953, Second Edition. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. Good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Item #288146
Series; An Oriental Institute essay. Physical description; vii, 378 p. : maps (on lining papers). Contents; Islam in the medieval world: the mood of the times -- Islam in the medieval world: Christendom and Islam -- The religious foundation: revelation -- The religious foundation: piety -- The body politic: law and the state -- The body politic: the social order -- The human ideal -- Self-expression: literature and history -- Creative borrowing: Greece in the "Arabian Nights." Subjects; Islam. Islamic civilization. Civilization, Medieval. Islamic civilization. Arab states History. Arabic civilisation Muslim civilisation Islamic civilisation Mediaeval. Islam History. Islamic countries.
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