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The Arab Conquests (Hardcover)
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The Arab Conquests (Hardcover)
Series: The Landmark Library, 21
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In the 7th and 8th centuries AD, armies inspired by the new
religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant,
southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula. These Arab
conquests followed immediately after the Prophet Mohammed's death
in 632. By this time, against all the odds, he had managed to unite
the feuding tribes of Arabia at the point of his sword. The Muslim
conquests lasted until 750, by which time several generations of
marauding Arab armies had carved out an Islamic empire (the Umayyad
empire, centred on Baghdad) which, in size and population, rivalled
that of Rome at its zenith, extending from the shores of the
Atlantic in the west to the snow-bounds mountains of Central Asia
and the borders of China in the east. In the process they had
completely crushed one great empire (the old empire of Byzantium),
and hollowed out another (that of the Iranian Sassanids). The Arab
Conquests represent one of the greatest feats of arms in history
and utterly changed the world. Justin Marozzi, much-praised author
of The Man Who Invented History and Baghdad: City of Peace, City of
Blood, tells their story with unfailing narrative verve and deep
scholarly authority.
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