‘Islamic Empires’ Review: Revisiting a Glorious Past

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Marozzi gives us a story of 15 urban communities, one for every century in a check that starts with the seventh and finishes in the 21st.

The main city is Mecca—"the Mother of All Cities"— and his rundown incorporates Damascus, Baghdad, Córdoba, Jerusalem, Cairo, Constantinople and Kabul, just as Samarkand right now and Isfahan in Iran, all capitals of progressive Islamic realms.

Somewhere else he composes that the Samarkand of Tamerlane was "one of the most cosmopolitan urban areas on the planet, however this owed as a lot to the constrained development of individuals and detainees as it did to the attractive fascination of the spot."

Indeed, even Kabul, which battles day by day to keep the Taliban under control, was in the sixteenth century a bilingual spot that dumbfounded a youthful Babur.

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