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Robert G. Hoyland

In God's Path

The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire

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In just over a hundred years--from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750--the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. Their armies threatened states as far flung as the Franks in Western Europe and the Tang Empire in China. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion, and it was claimed for the Arabs in roughly half the time. How this collection of Arabian tribes was able to engulf so many empires, states, and armies in such a short period has perplexed historians for centuries. Most accounts of the Arab invasion… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-020965-0
  • EAN: 9780190209650
  • Produktnummer: 17038577
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 13'980 KB
  • Abbildungen: 30 illus., including maps

Über den Autor


Professor of Late Antique and Early Islamic Middle Eastern History at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Robert G. Hoyland is the author of Arabia and the Arabs.

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