Great Islamic Conquests AD 632-750

Name: Great Islamic Conquests AD 632-750
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ISBN: 9781846032738

ISBN-10: 1846032733

ISBN-13: 9781846032738

Edition: 2008

Authors: David Nicolle

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Few, if any, centuries in world history have had such a profound and long-lasting impact as the first hundred years of Islamic history. In this book, David Nicolle, a former member of the BBC's Arabic service, examines the extensive Islamic conquests between 632 and 750 AD. These years saw the religion and culture of Islam, as well as the Arabic language, erupt from the Arabian Peninsula to spread across an area far larger than that of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent. It also saw the abrupt collapse of the Persian Empire, as well as the permanent withdrawal of the Romano-Byzantine Empire and its associated cultures, along with Christianity as a ruling faith, from the Middle East and…

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 5/19/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 6.70" wide x 9.88" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English



Introduction


Chronology


Background to war: Pre-Islamic Arabia


Outbreak: The birth of Islam and the unifying of Arabia


The warring sides: Armies of the Middle East and the Mediterranean


The fighting: A rising religion meets tired empires


Portrait of a soldier: Two warriors of Arabia


From conquest to empire: The Umayyad century


How the war ended: The fall of the Umayyad dynasty


The world around the war: Architecture and religion


Portrait of a civilian: A man of letters and a man of God


Conclusion


Further reading


Index