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Question: Pick a chapter from the list of readings and summarize it. The summary should be 800-1000 words long. Note that all but one of the eligible chapters comes from the The Oxford History of Islam, and the final one comes from The New Cambridge History of Islam. Both of these are available in electronic form under the "Assignments" link on Blackboard.

List of eligible chapters for Chapter Summary Assignment

• Muhammad and the Caliphate: Political History of the Islamic Empire up to the Mongol Conquest (chapter 1 of The Oxford History of Islam)
• Law and Society: The Interplay of Revelation and Reason in the Shariah (chapter 3 of The Oxford History of Islam)
• Science, Medicine, and Technology: The Making of a Scientific Culture (chapter 4 of The Oxford History of Islam)
• Art and Architecture: Themes and Variations (chapter 5 of The Oxford History of Islam)
• Philosophy and Theology: From the Eighth Century CE to the Present (chapter 6 of The Oxford History of Islam)
• Islam and Christendom: Historical, Cultural, and Religious Interactions from the Seventh to the Fifteenth Centuries (chapter 7 of The Oxford History of Islam)
• Sultanates and Gunpowder Empires: The Middle East (chapter 8 of The Oxford History of Islam)
• European Colonialism and the Emergence of Modern Muslim States (chapter 13 of The Oxford History of Islam)
• Contemporary Islam: Reformation or Revolution? (chapter 15 of The Oxford History of Islam)
• Culture and politics in Iran since the 1979 Revolution (chapter 18 of The New Cambridge History of Islam, VOLUME 6 pages 438 - 472)