1. Ancient Times: Mesopotamia and Persia 2. Birth of Islam 3. The Khalifate: Quest for Universal Unity 4. Fragmentation: Age of the Sultanates 5. Catastrophe: Crusaders and Mongols 6. Rebirth: The Three-Empires Era 7. Permeation of East by West 8. The Reform Movements 9. Triumph of the Secular Modernists 10. The Islamist Reaction
