The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times

The final installment in the groundbreaking The Venture of Islam series, “a monumental three-volume interpretation of Islamic civilization” ( Review of Middle East Studies ). The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle of the twentieth century.