1. Introduction: discovering Islam.

I. The pattern of Islamic history: 3.

Muslim ideal: holy book and prophet. 3.

A theory of Islamic history: (a). Ideal caliphs.

(b). Arab dynasties: Umayyads and Abbasids.

(c). The flowering of Islamic civilization.

(d). Decline and fall.

(e). Shias: revolution in the revolution.

(f). Mahdism and millenarian movements.

4. The great Muslim Empires: Ottomans, Saffavids and Mughals: (a).

Ottomans: facing Europe. (b).

Saffavids: Shia state. (c).

Mughals: encounter with Hinduism. (d).

Obsession and synthesis. 5.

Sufis and scholars: (a). Sufis, saints and mystics.

(b). Two scholars of Islam: Al Beruni and Ibn Khaldun.

6. Islam of the periphery: (a).

On the periphery. (b).

The Muslim minority in China. (c).

Muslims in the USSR. 7.

Under European rule: the colonial impact on Muslim society: (a). The disintegration of society.

(b). The myth of the noble savage: Muslim tribesman.

II. Contemporary Muslim society: 8.

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Image gallery. 3.

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Sculpture from the 1960s. 5.

Sculpture from the 1970s. 6.

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Sculpture from the 1990s. 8.

Sculpture from 2000 and after. 9.

Glimpses. 10.

Biographical profile. 11.

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