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The Shrinking Frontiers of Islam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Aziz Ahmad
Aziz Ahmad
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University of Toronto
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I have borrowed the term “frontier” from the late Professor Joseph Schacht for the Islamic marches where Islamic political power and Islam were once firmly entrenched. Unlike him I would apply this term also to the Islamic marches in Europe: Spain and Sicily. Division of Islamic lands into geographical categories “The Central Islamic Lands” and the “Further Islamic Lands,” has also been adopted in the recently published Cambridge History of Islam.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , April 1976 , pp. 145 - 159
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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