The venture of Islam : conscience and history in a world civilization. Volume 1, The classical age of Islam /
Marshall G.S. Hodgson.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1974.
- xii, 532 pages
Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-511) and indexes.
Marshall Hodgson and The venture of Islam / Reuben W. Smith -- Introduction to the study of Islamic civilization -- General prologue: The Islamic vision in religion and in civilization -- Book I; The Islamic infusion: genesis of a new social order : The world before Islam -- Muhammad's challenge, 570-624 -- The early Muslim state, 625-692 -- Book II; The classical civilization of the High Caliphate : The Islamic opposition, 692-750 -- The absolutism in flower, 750-813 -- The Shar'i Islamic vision, c.750-945 -- Muslim personal piety: confrontations with history and with selfhood, c750-945 -- Speculation: Falsafah and Kalam, c.750-945 -- Adab: the bloom of Arabic literary culture, c.813-945 -- The dissipation of the absolutist tradition, 813-945.
This volume analyzes the world before Islam, Muhammad's challenge, and the early Muslim state between 625 and 692. Hodgson then discusses the classical civilization of the High Caliphate. The volume also contains a general introduction to the complete work and a foreword by Reuben Smith, who, as Hodgson's colleague and friend, finished the Venture of Islam after the author's death and saw it through to publication.