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In God's Path - The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire (Hardcover)
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In God's Path - The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
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In just over a hundred years--from the death of Muhammad in 632 to
the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750--the followers of the
Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa,
and Spain. Their armies threatened states as far afield as the
Franks in Western Europe and the Tang Empire in China. The
conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its
greatest expansion, and it was claimed for the Arabs in roughly
half the time. How this collection of Arabian tribes was able to
engulf so many empires, states, and armies in such a short period
of time is a question that has perplexed historians for centuries.
Most recent popular accounts have been based almost solely on the
early Muslim sources, which were composed centuries later for the
purpose of demonstrating that God had chosen the Arabs as his
vehicle for spreading Islam throughout the world.
In this ground-breaking new history, distinguished Middle East
expert Robert G. Hoyland assimilates not only the rich biographical
and geographical information of the early Muslim sources but also
the many non-Arabic sources, contemporaneous or
near-contemporaneous with the conquests. The story of the conquests
traditionally begins with the revelation of Islam to Muhammad. In
God's Path, however, begins with a broad picture of the Late
Antique world prior to the Prophet's arrival, a world dominated by
the two superpowers of Byzantium and Sasanian Persia, "the two eyes
of the world." In between these empires, in western (Saudi) Arabia,
emerged a distinct Arab identity, which helped weld its members
into a formidable fighting force. The Arabs are the principal
actors in this drama yet, as Hoyland shows, the peoples along the
edges of Byzantium and Persia--the Khazars, Bulgars, Avars, and
Turks--also played important roles in the remaking of the old world
order. The new faith propagated by Muhammad and his successors made
it possible for many of the conquered peoples to join the Arabs in
creating the first Islamic Empire.
Well-paced and accessible, In God's Path presents a pioneering new
narrative of one the great transformational periods in all of
history.
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