The Great Muslim Empires. The History of Islamic States in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa

The book reflects the scientific views of leading European scholars in Oriental studies on the history of Muslim empires in the 15th to 19th centuries. Alongside studies dedicated to the rise and fall of great powers and ruling dynasties in... the Near and Middle East, the processes occurring on the periphery of the Islamic world are examined. For instance, Professor Bertold Spuler describes the spread of Islam to the north, analyzes the situation in the Bukhara Khanate, Kokand, and Khiva during the late Timurids. The book also includes materials devoted to the formation of states in Northwest and Equatorial Africa, the history of Iran during the Safavid dynasty, and the last three centuries of India's independence under the Great Mughals.