Islam: a thousand years of faith and power

[pt]. 1. Muhammad and the origins of Islam, 600-750

1. The world at the rise of Islam

2. Muhammad and the revelation of Islam

3. The sources of faith

4. Muhammad's successors

5. The spread of Islamic power

[pt]. 2. The golden age, 750-1250

6. The crucible

7. City and country

8. The flowering of intellectual life

[pt]. 3. The age of empires, 1250-1700

9. Regional powers

10. Consolidation

11. Expansion.