Administrative and Cultural History of Islam - Muhammad Sohail - Bog

The Purpose of this book is to describe the adminstrative and cultural aspects of Islamic history in a concise yet comprehensive way. This book deals not only with the political and economic but gives a full account of the social and cultural history from the City state of Madina to the Royal court of Ispahan. The author has tried to present a true picture of the Islamic civilization, rich with immense variety of literature and arts.

The growth and development of Islamic culture, the real spirit of Islamic sciences, and all the branches of knowledge such as Astronomy, Mathematics, Geography, botany, Medicine, Agriculture, Agronomy, and Education are dealt with within the following chapters.

This book comprises of six parts - the first part begins with Foundations of the Islamic State, and covers the administrative and political institutions of the righteous Caliphate. The second deals with the Umayyads and the third is the history of intellectual development under the Abbasids of Baghdad. The fourth describes the growth of Moorish Civilization. The fifth deals with the political and cultural history of the Fatimids. The sixth covers the political and cultural heritage of Safavids of Iran. The last part deals with general topics, Islamic Culture, science, culture and eminent scholars of Medieval Islam. The author has also in order to give the background briefly, dealt with its political and economic history. The purpose of this book is to describe the administrative and cultural aspects of Islamic history in a concise yet comprehensive way.
In order to give a brief background, the author has also dealt with the subject of the Islamic political and economic history