The Great Arab Conquests
how the spread of islam changed the world we live in
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2008
Summary
The Arab Conquests: A Century of Conquest
Today’s Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. Where the Roman Empire took over 200 years to reach its full extent, the Arab armies overran the whole Middle East, North Africa and Spain within a generation. They annihilated the thousand-year-old Persian Empire and reduced the Byzantine Empire to little more than a city-state based around Constantinople. Within a hundred years of the Prophet’s death, Muslim armies destroyed the Visigot…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753823897 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0753823896 |
| Author: | Hugh Kennedy |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2008 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 134mm x 40mm |
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a lucid and enlightening work that is surely to become the standard popular history of early Islam for many years to come - BIRMINGHAM POST - Adam Levitt
a lucid and enlightening work that is surely to become the standard popular history of early Islam for many years to come - BIRMINGHAM POST - Adam Levitt
About The Author
Hugh Kennedy
Hugh Kennedy studied Arabic at the Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies before reading Arabic, Persian and History at Cambridge. Since 1972 he has taught in the Department of Mediaeval History at the University of St. Andrews. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2000.
Previous titles: The Great Arab Conquests; Court of the Caliphs; Mongols, Huns and Vikings
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