The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline and Fall; From Original Sources (Second Edition Revised with Maps)
by MUIR, Sir WILLIAM
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The Religious Tract 1892. REVISED SECOND EDITION WITH MAPS, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & ornate decoration to spine & front board, xv + 612pp, folding maps, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate staining to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, cracking to some gutters, light foxing to prelims & terminals, some occassional underlining to text- discreet & unobtrusive)
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- Title
- The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline and Fall; From Original Sources (Second Edition Revised with Maps)
- Author
- MUIR, Sir WILLIAM
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Religious Tract 1892
- Keywords
- caliphate religion religious history exploration Arabia Syria Iran Asia Minor Persia Khorasan
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