Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Islam in a plural Asia by
DAVID O. MORGAN AND ANTHONY REID;
PART I
THE IMPACT OF THE STEPPE PEOPLES
1. The steppe peoples in the Islamic world by
EDMUND BOSWORTH;
2 • The early expansion of Islam in India by
ANDRE WINK;
3 • Muslim India: the Delhi sultanate by
PETER JACKSON;
4 • The rule of the infidels: the Mongols and the Islamic world by
BEATRICE FORBES MANZ;
5 • Tamerlane and his descendants: from paladins to patrons by
MARIA E. SUBTELNY;
PART II
THE GUNPOWDER EMPIRES
6 • Iran under Safavid rule by
SHOLEH A. QUINN;
7 • Islamic culture and the Chinggisid restoration: Central Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by
R. D. McCHESNEY;
8 • India under Mughal rule by
STEPHEN DALE;
PART III
THE MARITIME OECUMENE
9 • Islamic trade, shipping, port states and merchant communities in the Indian Ocean, seventh to sixteenth centuries by
MICHAEL PEARSON;
10 • Early Muslim expansion in South East Asia, eighth to fifteenth centuries by
GEOFF WADE;
11 • Follow the white camel: Islam in China to 1800 by
ZVI BEN DOR BENITE;
12 • Islam in South East Asia and the Indian Ocean littoral, 1500 1800: expansion, polarisation, synthesis by
ANTHONY REID;
13 • South East Asian localisations of Islam and participation within a global umma, c. 1500 1800 by
R. MICHAEL FEENER;
14 • Transition: the end of the old order Iran in the eighteenth century by
G. R. GARTHWAITE;
PART IV
THEMES 15 • Conversion to Islam by
RICHARD W. BULLIET;
16 • Armies and their economic basis in Iran and the surrounding lands, c. 1000 1500 by
REUVEN AMITAI;
17 • Commercial structures by
SCOTT C. LEVI;
18 • Transmitters of authority and ideas across cultural boundaries, eleventh to eighteenth centuries by
MUHAMMAD QASIM ZAMAN

Volume 3 of The New Cambridge History of Islam traces the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth. As the faith crossed new cultural boun daries, the trader and the mystic assumed as great an importance as the soldier and the administrator. Distinctive Islamic idioms began to emerge from other great linguistic traditions apart from Arabic, especially in Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Swahili, Malay and Chinese. The Islamic world transformed and absorbed new, vital influences. As the essays in this collection demonstrate, three major features distinguish the time and place both from the earlier experience of Islam and from the universal modernity of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. First, the steppe tribal peoples of Central Asia, many Turkic, had a decisive impact on the Islamic lands. Second, Islam expanded along the trade routes of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, in a quite different manner from the conquests of the heroic age. And, third, Islam interacted with Asian spirituality, including forms we today label Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Taoism and Shamanism. It was during this period, and through exploration across land and sea, that Islam became a truly world religion.