Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Islamic West-Asia, late antique Imperial and 'Medieval'-early modern dynastic formations, and a new history of the Islamic world -- 1. West-Asia in late antiquity: Roman, Persian, and Arabian Leaderships (6th-7th centuries) -- 2. The Prophet Muhammad and the Arabian leadership of Medina (610-661) -- 3. The Arabian imperial formation of the Umayyads (661-750) -- 4. Arabian expansions and late antique transformations (7th-8th centuries) -- 5. The 'Classical' period of the Abbasids: late antique imperial formation and the triumph of the East (750-908) -- 6. Late antique patrimonial-bureaucratic formation in Islamic West-Asia: the construction of Arabo-Islamic urbanities, authorities and courts (8th-10th centuries) -- 7. Abbasid imperial transformations and post-Abbasid fragmentation (9th-11th centuries) -- 8. 'Medieval' transformations across Islamic West-Asia: the Turkish dynasty of the Seljuks, and networks of Perso-Iranian viziers (1038-1193) -- 9. 'Medieval' transformations in West-Asia's Euphrates-to-Nile zone - 1: 'Franks', Zengids and Ayyyubids -- 10. "Medieval' transformations in West-Asia's Nile-to-Euphrates zone - 2: the Cairo Sultanate and 'the Reign of the Turks' (1250-15th century) -- 11. 'Medieval' transformations between Transoxania and Asia Minor - 1: Mongol and post-Mongol conquest practices and Hülegüid, post-Hülegüid and Ottoman dynastic formations -- 12. 'Medieval' transformations between Transoxania and Asia Minor - 2: Turko-Mongol and Turkmen conquest practices and dynastic formations -- 13. 'Medieval' symbiotic transformations in Islamic West-Asia: the construction of heterogeneous urbanities, ambiguous authorities, and dynastic courts (12th-16th centuries) -- 14. Early modern dynastic formations: (post-)Safavids, Ottomans and many others (17th-18th centuries)

"A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800 supplies a fresh and unique survey of the formation of the Islamic world and the key developments that characterize this broad region's history from late antiquity up to the beginning of the modern era. Containing two chronological parts and fourteen chapters, this impressive overview explains how different tides in Islamic history washed ashore diverse sets of leadership groups, multiple practices of power and authority, and transformed imperial and dynastic discourses in a theocratic age. A text that transcends many of today's popular stereotypes of the premodern Islamic past, the volume takes a holistically and theoretically informed approach for understanding, interpreting and teaching premodern Islamic history. Jo Van Steenbergen identifies the Asian connectedness of the socio-cultural landscapes between the Nile in the southwest to the Bosphorus in the northwest, and the Oxus (Amu Darya) and Jaxartes (Syr Darya) in the northeast to the Indus in the southeast. This abundantly illustrated book also offers maps and dynastic tables, enabling students to gain an informed understanding of this broad region of the world. This book is an essential text for undergraduate classes on Islamic History, Middle East Studies, and Religious History"--