Marshall G. S. Hodgson

The venture of Islam : conscience and history in a world civilization

V. 1. The classical age of Islam -- v. 2. The expansion of islam in the middle periods -- v. 3. The gunpowder empires and modern times.

Rethinking world history: Europe in a global context

Editors preface Introduction: Marshall G. S. Hodgson and world history Edmund Burke, III Part I. Europe in a global context: 1. The interrelations of societies in history 2. In the center of the map: nations see themselves as the hub of history 3. World history and world outlook 4. The great Western Transmutation 5. Historical method in civilizational studies 6. On doing world history Part II. Islam in a global context: 7. The role of Islam in world history 8. Cultural patterning in Islamdom and the Occident 9. The unity of later Islamic history 10. Modernity and the Islamic heritage Part III. The discipline of world history: 11. The objectivity of large-scale historical inquiry: its peculiar limits and requirements 12. Conditions of historical comparison among ages and regions: the limitations of their validity 13. Interregional studies as integrating the historical disciplines: the practical implications of an interregional orientation for scholars and for the public Conclusion: Islamic history as world history: Marshall G. S. Hodgson and The Venture of Islam, Edmund Burke, III.

Rethinking world history: Contents

Editors preface Introduction: Marshall G. S. Hodgson and world history Edmund Burke, III Part I. Europe in a global context: 1. The interrelations of societies in history 2. In the center of the map: nations see themselves as the hub of history 3. World history and world outlook 4. The great Western Transmutation 5. Historical method in civilizational studies 6. On doing world history Part II. Islam in a global context: 7. The role of Islam in world history 8. Cultural patterning in Islamdom and the Occident 9. The unity of later Islamic history 10. Modernity and the Islamic heritage Part III. The discipline of world history: 11. The objectivity of large-scale historical inquiry: its peculiar limits and requirements 12. Conditions of historical comparison among ages and regions: the limitations of their validity 13. Interregional studies as integrating the historical disciplines: the practical implications of an interregional orientation for scholars and for the public Conclusion: Islamic history as world history: Marshall G. S. Hodgson and The Venture of Islam, Edmund Burke, III.

The Interrelations of Societies in History

It has been long pointed out that the destinies of the various sections of mankind began to be interrelated long before the twentieth century, with its global wars and cold wars; or even the nineteenth century, the century of European world hegemony. Here we will study certain of the historical ways in which these destinies were intertwined; in this way we may distinguish more valid modes of tracing large-scale history and of comparing the societies involved in it, from a number of popular but unsound modes of trying to do so. I shall speak mostly of the ages before modern times, noting only briefly at the end of the paper certain crucial ways in which modern interrelations among human societies have been different from earlier ones.

The Role of Islam in World History

Until the seventeenth century of our era, the Islamicate society that was associated with the Islamic religion was the most expansive society in the Afro-Eurasian hemisphere and had the most influence on other societies. This was in part because of its central location, but also because in it were expressed effectively certain cultural pressures–cosmopolitan and egalitarian (and anti-traditional)– generated in the older and more central lands of this society.