Historical Atlas of the Islamic World

The Historical Atlas of the Islamic World broadly introduces the expansion of Islam up to 750; the then fracturing of the Islamic world into different empires; and modernity and the formation of independent nation‐states. Its historical narrative weaves together complex regional geographies about the Islamic Worlds of the Middle and Near East – from the Abbasid Empire and its successor states to the end of the Ottoman Empire; Islamic Spain; the expansion of Islam in Sub‐Saharan Africa and the Jihad states; Islam around the Indian Ocean; as well as more global geographies of the Crusades, the Mongol invasion and European...