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Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century

Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century

Howard-Johnston, James

Hardcover

Ancient History GeneralGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 019920859X
ISBN13: 9780199208593
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 29 2010
Pages: 576
Weight: 2.25
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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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