"The Islamic World - comprising those countries where Islam is the dominant or single most important religion - covers territories as far apart as Morocco and Indonesia, Somalia and Bosnia, and includes an extraordinarily diverse range of societies and cultures. A Modern History of the Islamic World provides a comprehensive history of these societies in the twentieth century, looking both at what they have in common and at their equally profound differences.

Political change provides the chronological framework but is explored throughout in the context of culture and society."--BOOK JACKET.