ISBN: 9780191576089

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 Egypt641-2 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 andpolitical force, the modern Middle East, and the jihadist impulse, which is as evident today as it was in the seventh century.; PDF; History & Transport > Humanities > Regional & national history > Asian history > Middle Eastern hist, OUP Oxford<

2010, ISBN: 9780191576089

Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), James Howard-Johnston provides a sweeping and highly readable account of probably the mos… Mehr…

Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), 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 Egypt641-2 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 andpolitical force, the modern Middle East, and the jihadist impulse, which is as evident today as it was in the seventh century. [PU: OUP Oxford], Seiten: 576, OUP Oxford, 2010<

2010, ISBN: 9780191576089

Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century, eBook Download (PDF), eBooks, [PU: OUP Oxford]

2010, ISBN: 9780191576089

Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), [PU: OUP Oxford], OUP Oxford, 2010

ISBN: 9780191576089

Witnesses to a World Crisis ab 46.49 EURO Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century Medien > Bücher, [PU: Oxford University Press]