P. M. Holt (1918–2006)
Autore di The Age of the Crusades: The Near East from the Eleventh Century to 1517
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Early Mamluk Diplomacy: Treaties of Baybars and Qalawun With Christian Rulers (Islamic History and Civilization.… (1995) 8 copie
The Mahdist State in the Sudan, 1881-1898: A Study of its Origins, Development and Overthrow (1958) 7 copie
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The Formation of Turkey: The Seljukid Sultanate of Rum: Eleventh to Fourteenth Century (2001) — alcune edizioni — 14 copie
Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, Vol V, No 28 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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- Nome legale
- Holt, Peter Malcolm
- Data di nascita
- 1918-11-28
- Data di morte
- 2006-11-02
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- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Istruzione
- Lord Williams's School
University of Oxford (University College|history) - Attività lavorative
- teacher
school inspector
archivist
university lecturer
university professor - Relazioni
- Mawle, Nancy (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Ministry of Education|secondary school teacher and inspector|1941-1953|government archivist|1954-1955)
University College of Khartoum (part-time lecturer|1952-1955)
School of Oriental and African Studies (lecturer|1955-1982|reader then Professor of Arab History then Professor of the History of the Near and Middle East|1975-1982)
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VOLUME 2B, ISLAMIC SOCIETY AND CIVILISATION
INTRODUCTION
P. M. HoLT
A reader taking up a work entitled The Cambridge history of Islam may
reasonably ask, 'What is Islam? In what sense is Islam an appropriate
field for historical enquiry?' Primarily, of course, Islam is, like
Christianity, a religion, the antecedents, origin and development
which may, without prejudice to its transcendental aspects, be a legiti
mate concern of historians. Religious history in the narrow sense is not,
owever, the only, or even the main, concern of the contributors to
these volumes. For the faith of Islam has, again like Christianity, been a
great synthesizing agent. From its earliest days it displayed features of
kinship with the earlier monotheisms of Judaism and Christianity
Implanted in the former provinces of the Byzantine and Sasanian
empires, it was compelled to maintain and define its autonomy against
older and more developed faiths. Like Judaism and Christianity before
it, it met the challenge of Greek philosophy, and adopted the conceptual
and logical tools of this opponent to expand, to deepen, and to render
articulate its self-consciousness. In this connexion, the first three
centuries of Islam, like the first three centuries of Christianity, were
critical for establishing the norms of belief and practice, and for embody
ing them in a tradition which was, or which purported to be, historical.
The Islamic synthesis did not stop at this stage. The external frontier
of Islam has continued to move until our own day. For the most part
this movement has been one of expansion-into Central Asia, into the
Indian sub-continent and south-east Asia, and into trans-Saharan Africa
but there have also been phases of retreat and withdrawal, notably in
pain, and in central and south-eastern Europe. But besides this external
frontier, which has largely been the creation of conquering armies
(although with important exceptions in Central and south-cast Asin and
Africa) there has also been throughout Islamic history an internal
frontier-the invisible line of division between Muslim and non
Muslim. Here also over the centuries there has been an expansion of
Islam, so that, for example, in the former Byzantine and Sasanian lands
the Christian and Zoroastrian communities were reduced to numerical
insignificance, and became minority-groups like the Jews. This two
fold expansion has brought new elements into the Islamic synthesis,
a I should like to thank my co-editors, Professors Lambton and Lewis,
for reading and commenting on this Introduction in draft...… (altro)