ISBN: 1397803068158 The Great Arab Conquests (1 items)

The Great Arab Conquests - How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In
Author: Hugh Kennedy
ISBN-13: 9780306815850
ISBN-10: 0306815850
Publication Date: 9/2007
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Hardcover
6.25 x 9.25 inches, 421 pages

Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated a territory with an east-west expanse greater than the Roman Empire, and they did it in about one-half the time. By the mid-eighth century, Arab armies had conquered the thousand-year-old Persian Empire, reduced the Byzantine Empire to little more than a city-state based around Constantinople, and destroyed the Visigoth kingdom of Spain. The cultural and linguistic effects of this early Islamic expansion reverberate today. This is the first popular English-language account in many years of this astonishing remaking of the political and religious map of the world. Hugh Kennedy's sweeping narrative reveals how the Arab armies… Read more