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The Cambridge History of Islam, edited by P.M. Holt, Ann K.S. Lambton and Bernard Lewis, volumes IA, IB, IIA &#38; IIB, Cambridge University Press, 1977.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;First published in 1970, The Cambridge History of Islam is the most comprehensive and ambitious collaborative survey of Islamic history and civilisation yet to appear in English. On publication it was welcomed as a work useful both for reference and reading, for the general reader, students and specialist alike. The History has now been reprinted, with corrections, and for ease of handling the original two hardcover volumes have each been divided into two separate paperbacks.VOLUME IA, THE CENTRAL ISLAMIC LANDS FROM PRE-ISLAMIC TIMES TO THE FIRST WORLD WARVOLUME IB, THE CENTRAL ISLAMIC LANDS SINCE 1918 [top]VOLUME IIA, THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT,SOUTH-EAST ASIA, AFRICA AND THE MUSLIM WEST  [top]VOLUME IIB, ISLAMIC SOCIETY AND CIVILIZATION  [top]