These include history and geography,
schools of thought, mysticism, religious belief, religious practice, Islamic law, theology, philosophy and ideology, politics (
dynastic states, political and religious roles, political concepts and terms), economics, culture and society (personal life, community life, arts and literature, science and medicine, communications, popular religion), Islamic studies, institutions, organizations, movements, biographies.
For a few privileged interests, those he went to
school with and grew up rubbing shoulders with — the royalty of New York's banking circles — that period enabled their
dynastic wealth to explode and transferred untold riches from the former middle class to the elite.