Synopses & Reviews
Spanning some twenty-five years of research and writing, the essays in this volume fall into two categories: historiography and Indo-Islamic civilization. The former deals with how historians structure and answer the questions they choose to ask of the past, the latter covers case studies of particular historical communities in India.
Review
"Eaton writes...with commendable scholarly objectivity and clarity about his subject...He displays a wide acquaintance with the newer scholarship on the origins and early history of Islam in Arabia and in the adjacent Fertile Crescent."--Studies in Contemporary Islam