Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century
James Howard-Johnston
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.
श्रेणियाँ:
साल:
2010
प्रकाशन:
Oxford University Press, USA
भाषा:
english
पृष्ठ:
610
ISBN 10:
019920859X
फ़ाइल:
PDF, 8.47 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2010