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The Great Islamic Conquests AD 632–750: Essential Histories

By David Nicolle

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing Ltd.
Year
2009
ISBN
9781472895356
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3710928 bytes)
Series
Essential Histories
Pages
\80
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-07-01 00:38:50

Description

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 North Africa.

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