Atlas of Islam 1800-2000

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18449-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 309 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 1057 g

This new Atlas of Islam covers the history of the Islamic world from 1800 until the year 2000. In 85 original maps it offers accessible surveys on population, history and politics, religion, and the economy. Colonialism and de-colonization are extensively covered for the entire Islamic world, including post-USSR Cetnral Asia. The Atlas of Islam also contains detailed maps about Iraq and the Gulf Wars, Afghanistan, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the strategic issue of water management. The index lists variants of all place names in the Atlas. This exceptional atlas is both an ideal teaching tool and an invaluable reference work for the contemporary history of the Islamic world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Birken, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: Neuzeit

Über Autor(innen)

Birken, Andreas
Andreas Birken (Dr. phil, Tübingen 1970) studied music, political sciences and Islamic studies, and is a former member of the Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Oriens (TAVO). He is the author of Die Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches (Wiesbaden 1976) and Die Wirtschaftsbeziehungen zwischen Europa und dem Vorderen Orient im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert (Wiesbaden 1980). Later he worked for several years as an editor and manager of an info-graphics department which is now part of the German Press Agency. Over the past years he has privately published several atlases on the Near and Middle East.

Andreas Birken (Dr. phil, Tübingen 1970) studied music, political sciences and Islamic studies, and is a former member of the Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Oriens (TAVO). He is the author of Die Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches (Wiesbaden 1976) and Die Wirtschaftsbeziehungen zwischen Europa und dem Vorderen Orient im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert (Wiesbaden 1980). Later he worked for several years as an editor and manager of an info-graphics department which is now part of the German Press Agency. Over the past years he has privately published several atlases on the Near and Middle East.