Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam and World History Book

	Editor's preface
	Introduction: Marshall C. S. Hodgson and world history
Pt. I	Europe in a global context
1	The interrelations of societies in history	3
2	In the center of the map: Nations see themselves as the hub of history	29
3	World history and a world outlook	35
4	The great Western Transmutation	44
5	Historical method in civilizational studies	72
6	On doing world history	91
Pt. II	Islam in a global context
7	The role of Islam in world history	97
8	Cultural patterning in Islamdom and the Occident	126
9	The unity of later Islamic history	171
10	Modernity and the Islamic heritage	207
Pt. III	The discipline of world history
11	The objectivity of large-scale historical inquiry: Its peculiar limits and requirements	247
12	Conditions of historical comparison among ages and regions: The limitations of their validity	267
13	Interregional studies as integrating the historical disciplines: The practical implications of an interregional orientation for scholars and for the public	288
	Conclusion: Islamic history as world history: Marshall G.S. Hodgson and The Venture of Islam	301