Table of Contents 1: Fred M. Donner (University of Chicago): MUHAMMAD AND THE CALIPHATE: Political History of the Islamic Empire up to the Mongol Conquest 2: Vincent J. Cornell (Duke University): FRUIT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE: The Relationship between Faith and Practice in Islam 3: Mohammad Hashim Kamali (International Islamic University, Malaysia): LAW AND SOCIETY: The Interplay of Revelation and Reason in the Shariah 4: Ahmad Dallal (Stanford University): SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND TECHNOLOGY: The Making of a Scientific Culture 5: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom: ART AND ARCHITECTURE: Themes and Variations 6: Majid Fakhry (American University of Beirut and Georgetown University): PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY: From the Eighth Century C.E. to the Present 7: Jane I. Smith (Hartford Seminary): ISLAM AND CHRISTENDOM: Historical, Cultural, and Religious Interaction from the Seventh to the Fifteenth Centuries 8: Ira M. Lapidus (University of California at Berkeley): SULTANATES AND GUNPOWDER EMPIRES: The Middle East 9: Bruce B. Lawrence (Duke University): THE EASTWARD JOURNEY OF MUSLIM KINGSHIP: Islam in South and Southeast Asia 10: Dru C. Gladney (Asia-Pacific Center and University of Hawaii, Manoa): CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA: Transnationalization, Islamization, and Ethnicization 11: Nehemia Levtzion (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): ISLAM IN AFRICA TO 1800: Merchants, Chiefs, and Saints 12: John Obert Voll (Georgetown University): FOUNDATIONS FOR RENEWAL AND REFORM: Islamic Movements in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 13: S. V. R. Nasr (University of San Diego): EUROPEAN COLONIALISM AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN MUSLIM STATES 14: Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad (Georgetown University): THE GLOBALIZATION OF ISLAM: The Return of Muslims to the West 15: John L. Esposito (Georgetown University): CONTEMPORARY ISLAM: Reformation Or Revolution? Chronology Select Bibliography Contributors Image Sources Index
