Orientalism : Early Sources (Volume XI) - History of the Islamic Peoples

It is still a very risky undertaking to write a history of the Islamic peoples and states from the beginnings down to the present, since the sources for such an account are far from having been made accessible, to say nothing of having been subjected to critical analysis. No individual can dare to solve this problem. But it appears desirable to offer to those interested in questions of world politics a bird's eye view of the fortunes of the believers in Islam, which today are interwoven more intimately than ever with world events in general, and can only be presented in a fragmentary form in works of reference and general world histories.

From the Preface to the German Edition
Translators Note

Part I : The Arabs and the Arab Empire
Chapter 1 : Arabia before Islam
Chapter 2 : The Prophet Muhammad
Chapter 3 : Muhammad and His Teachings
Chapter 4 : The First Four Caliphs
Chapter 5 : The Umayyads

Part II : The Islamic Empire and Its Dissolution
Chapter 1 : The First Abbasids
Chapter 2 : The Decay of the Caliphate and the Rise of Minor Dynasties
Chapter 3 : Persians and Turks
Chapter 4 : Islam in Spain and in North Africa
Chapter 5 : The Near East in the Age of the Crusades and the Rise of the Mamluks in Egypt
Chapter 6 : Turks and Mongols : the End of the Caliphate

Part III : The Ottoman Turks as the Leading Power in Islam
Chapter 1 : The Origins of the Ottoman Empire and Its Expansion down to the Time of Suleyman I
Chapter 2 : The Civilization of the Osmanlis at the Zenith of the Empire
Chapter 3 : The Rise of the New Persian Empire and the Turkish-Persian Conflict
Chapter 4 : The Decline of the Ottoman Power down to the End of the Eighteenth Century

Part IV : Islam in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 1 : The Ottoman Empire and Egypt
Chapter 2 : Intellectual Life in the Ottoman Empire and in Egypt in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 3 : North Africa
Chapter 4 : The Sudan
Chapter 5 : Persia and Afghanistan

Part V : The Islamic States after the World War
Chapter 1 : Turkey
Chapter 2 : Egypt
Chapter 3 : Arabia
Chapter 4 : Syria, Palestine, Transjordan, and Iraq
Chapter 5 : Persia and Afghanistan

Review of Events : 1939-1947
Chronological Table
Bibliography
Index