Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople Religion and Society

This second volume examines the religion and structure of Islamic society. Bernard Lewis draws on a broad range of Islamic literature, including books on religious sects, politics and economics, philosophy and science, travel, biography and literary works, and even bureaucratic records fromsuch disparate sources as the postal service and the judiciary. Comprehensive and cogently translated, these documents bring into sharp focus aspects of a world long neglected by Western historians.Lewis, Bernard is the author of 'Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople Religion and Society', published 1987 under ISBN 9780195050882 and ISBN 0195050886.