ISBN: 9780199208593

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 destruct… Mehr…

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. Trade Books>Hardcover>World History>Mideast,N Africa Hist>Mideast,N Africa Hist, Oxford University Press Core >2<

2010, ISBN: 9780199208593

Hard cover, New., Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 576 p. Contains: Unspecified, Maps., [PU: Oxford University Press, USA]

2010, ISBN: 019920859X

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