The history of Arabia is inextricably tied to the history of Islam.
The Prophet Muhammad came from Arabia, and the most important
religious centers for Muslims are located in the Arab cities of
Mecca and Medina. However, Arabs already had a history reaching
back over one and a half millennia when Muhammad entered the stage.
Since the ninth century B.C.E., they had been an integral force in
determining the fate of the Middle East, establishing themselves as
a major power in the seventh century C.E. and with the rise of the
caliphate expanding the borders of the Arab world far beyond the
Middle East into North Africa and Spain, and even into France.
Since that time, Arab history has been intimately connected with
European history. Medieval European arts and sciences would have
been unthinkable without the brilliant culture of the Arab empire.
Only in the modern era has this relationship been marked by a
growing European hegemony, which continues to encumber relations
between the West and the Arab world to the present day. In this
volume, Heinz Halm offers a compact and comprehensible overview of
the history and culture of the Arabs from the first references in
the inscriptions of Assyrian kings to the most recent developments
of contemporary Arab nations.
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