Book Analysis: Bulliet Vs. Lapidus

Bulliet vs. Lapidus

Richard Bulliet and Ira M. Lapidus are both exceptional historians on the Subject of Islam. Both historians have written scholarly works on the matter. Richard Bulliets book Islam: the view from the edge attempts to examine the spread of Islam, from the view point of the edge, rather than from the center. Bulliets describes the "the view from the edge is very much the story of when, how, and why". Bulliets main objective is to enage the reader in a story that develops the edge, because, in truth, the edge is needed, because, in truth the edge ultimetely creates the center". The "edge" stands for the smaller communities and diversity that contributed to the beliefs of the Islam. While the "center" is focused on imperial dyansties and poltical instutions taking place within Mecca and Medina. Ira Lapidus book Islamic socities to the ninettenth century: a global history, try answer a vairiety of questions. For instance, what Islam, what are its vaules, and how did so many peoples, so different and dispersed, beome Muslims?" In addtion the book answers the "what does...