''The New Cambridge History of Islam'' is a six volume
history of Islam
The history of Islam concerns the political, social, economic, military, and cultural developments of the Islamic civilization. Most historians believe that Islam originated in Mecca and Medina at the start of the 7th century CE. Muslims re ...
published by
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press in the world. It is also the King's Printer.
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in 2010. The general editor is Michael Cook.
The history replaced the original '' Cambridge History of Islam'' which was published in 1970. As well as being greatly expanded from the earlier history, which was of two volumes, the new history introduces more thematic sections and covers wider ground by, for instance, a detailed examination of Sufism. It also cautiously questions the narrative of the history of Islam believed by Muslims which it finds lacks reliable textual evidence for the earliest period.The New Cambridge History of Islam Ed by Michael Cook et al: review. Noel Malcolm, ''
The Telegraph
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Australia
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'', 6 February 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
Volumes
* ''Volume 1, The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries''. Edited by
Chase F. Robinson
Chase F. Robinson is an American historian of Islam (born 1963), who is currently Dame Jillian Sackler Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Institution. Prior to assuming this role, he served as ...
, 2010.
* ''Volume 2, The Western Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries''. Edited by
Maribel Fierro
Dr. María Isabel Fierro Bello (born 1956) is a researcher on Middle Eastern studies at the Spanish National Research Council's humanities branch in Madrid, Spain.David O. Morgan, Anthony Reid, 2010.
* ''Volume 4, Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century''. Edited by Robert Irwin. 2010.
* ''Volume 5, The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance''. Edited by
Francis Robinson
Francis Christopher Rowland Robinson CBE, DL, FRAS (born 23 November 1944 in Barnet) is a British historian and academic who specialises in the history of South Asia and Islam. Since 1990, he has been Professor of History of South Asia at the ...
, 2010.
* ''Volume 6, Muslims and Modernity: Culture and Society since 1800''.Edited by Robert W. Hefner, 2010.