8vo. Volume 2A: The Indian Sub-Continent, South-East Asia, Africa and The Muslim West: xvi, 439 pp., 6 maps / Volume 2B: Islamic Society and Civilisation: xx, pages 443-966, 32 b/w plates, Ex-library stamp verso covers and endpapers, otherwise set clean inside and in very good condition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first paperback edition, 1977.

Synopsis

First published in 1970, The Cambridge History of Islam is a most comprehensive and ambitious collaborative survey of Islamic history and civilisation. On publication it was welcomed as a work useful both for reference and reading, for the general reader, student and specialist alike. It has now been reprinted, with corrections, and for ease of handling the original two hardcover volumes have each been divided into two separate paperbacks.