Volume 2 of The New Cambridge History of Islam is devoted to the history of the Western Islamic lands from the political fragmentation of the eleventh century to the beginnings of European colonialism towards the end of the eighteenth century. The volume embraces a vast area from al-Andalus and North Africa to Arabia and the lands of the Ottomans. In the first four sections, scholars – all leaders in their particular fields - chart the rise and fall, and explain the political and religious developments, of the various independent ruling dynasties across the region, including famously the Almohads, the Fatimids and Mamluks, and, of course, the Ottomans. The final section of the volume explores the commonalities and continuities that united these diverse and geographically disparate communities, through in-depth analyses of state formation, conversion, taxation, scholarship and the military.
Introduction Maribel Fierro; Part I. Al-Andalus, North and West Africa: 1. Al-Andalus and the Maghrib (from the fifth/eleventh century to the fall of the Almoravids) María Jesús Viguera-Molins; 2. The central lands of North Africa and Sicily, until the beginning of the Almohad period Michael Brett; 3. The Almohads (524–646/1130–1248) and the Hafsids (627–932/1229–1526) Maribel Fierro; 4. The post-Almohad dynasties in al-Andalus and the Maghrib (seventh-ninth/thirteenth-fifteenth centuries) Fernando Rodríguez Mediano; 5. West Africa and its early empires Ulrich Rebstock; Part II. Egypt and Syria: 6. Bilād al-Shām, from the Fatimid conquest to the fall of the Ayyubids (359–658/970–1260) Anne-Marie Eddé; 7. The Fatimid caliphate (358–567/969–1171) and the Ayyubids in Egypt (567–648/1171–1250) Yaacov Lev; 8. The Mamluks in Egypt and Syria: the Turkish Mamluk sultanate (648–784/1250–1382) and the Circassian Mamluk sultanate (784–923/1382–1517) Amalia Levanoni; 9. Western Arabia and Yemen (fifth/eleventh century to the Ottoman conquest) Esther Peskes; Part III. Muslim Anatolia and the Ottoman Empire: 10. The Turks in Anatolia before the Ottomans Gary Leiser; 11. The rise of the Ottomans Kate Fleet; 12. The Ottoman Empire (tenth/sixteenth century) Colin Imber; 13. The Ottoman Empire. The age of 'political households' (eleventh-twelfth/seventeenth-eighteenth centuries) Soraiya Faroqhi; 14. Egypt and Syria under the Ottomans Bruce Masters; 15. Western Arabia and Yemen during the Ottoman period Bernard Haykel; Part IV. North and West Africa: 16. Sharīfian rule in Morocco (tenth-twelfth/sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) Stephen Cory; 17. West Africa (tenth-twelfth/sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) Ulrich Rebstock; 18. Ottoman Maghrib Houari Touati; Part V. Rulers, Soldiers, Peasants, Scholars and Traders: 19. State formation and organization Michael Brett; 20. Conversion to Islam. From the 'age of conversions' to the millet system Mercedes García-Arenal; 21. Taxation and armies Albrecht Fuess; 22. Trade; 22A. Muslim trade in the Late Medieval Mediterranean world Olivia Remie Constable; 22B. Overland trade in the western Islamic world (fifth-ninth/eleventh-fifteenth centuries) John L. Meloy; 22C. Trade in the Ottoman lands to 1215/1800 Bruce Masters; 23. The 'ulamā' Manuela Marín; Bibliography.
Maribel Fierro is a Research Professor at the Center of Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid. Her previous publications include Al-Andalus: saberes e intercambios culturales (2001), Abd al-Rahman III, The First Cordoban Caliph (2005), Los almohades: problemas y perspectivas (as co-editor, 2005) and El cuerpo derrotado: cómo trataban musulmanes y cristianos a los enemigos vencidos (Península Ibérica, ss. VIII-XIII) (as co-editor, 2008).
