The Great Arab Conquests
How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in
A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to ChinaToday's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. Whereas the Roman Empire took over 200 years to reach its fullest 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 Visigoth kingdom of Spain, and crossed the Pyrenees to occupy southern France. This is the first popular English language…
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Weitere Autoren: Kennedy, Hugh
- ISBN: 978-0-7538-2389-7
- EAN: 9780753823897
- Produktnummer: 17350924
- Verlag: Orion Publishing Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 448 S.
- Masse: H21.4 cm x B13.6 cm x D3.5 cm 414 g
- Abbildungen: 9 Maps
- Gewicht: 414
Über den Autor
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.
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