A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire
from Spain to China Today'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 account of this astonishing remaking of the political and
religious map of the world. Hugh Kennedy's sweeping narrative
reveals how the Arab armies conquered almost everything in their
path. One of the few academic historians with a genuine talent for
story telling, he offers a compelling mix of larger-than-life
characters, battles, treachery and the clash of civilizations.
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