Modern Islam

Fourteen centuries of Islamic history set out in sequence, from the first revelation in 610 CE to the present: the caliphates and dynasties, the conquests and the losses, the intellectual flowering, and the making of the modern Muslim world.

Islamic history from 1800 to the present: the weakening of the Ottoman and other Muslim empires, the period of European colonial rule, the independence movements that followed, the founding of the modern Muslim states, and the changes since.