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excellent book and some very interesting different points of view on the Islamic empires over the last 1400 years! there is a huge ottoman focus in this book but that may be understandable as that was the caliphate closest to our times therefore more material available. the book talks about lots of different subjects like the salman Rushdie incident, Khomeini in Iran, the economics demise of the ottomans and other reasons for its demise, Muslims in Spain, the relationships with Judaism and Christianity, the corsairs in Iceland and lots more. the book is interesting not because of the breadth of subjects it covers but the insight and other angles it shows. worth the read.