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Witnesses to a World Crisis - Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century (Paperback)
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Witnesses to a World Crisis - Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century (Paperback)
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James Howard-Johnston provides a sweeping and highly readable
account of probably the most dramatic single episode in world
history - the emergence of a new religion (Islam), the destruction
of two established great powers (Roman and Iranian), and the
creation of a new world empire by the Arabs, all in the space of
not much more than a generation (610-52 AD). Warfare looms large,
especially where operations can be followed in some detail, as in
Iraq 636-40, in Egypt 641-2 and in the long-drawn out battle for
the Mediterranean (649-98). As the first history of the formative
phase of Islam to be grounded in the important non-Islamic as well
as Islamic sources Witnesses to a World Crisis is essential reading
for anyone wanting to understand Islam as a religion and political
force, the modern Middle East, and the jihadist impulse, which is
as evident today as it was in the seventh century.
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