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

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 | #4787969 in Books |  Howard Johnston James |  2010-07-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.40 x1.50 x9.60l,2.25 | File type: PDF | 576 pages

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||13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| A New Classic on the Early History of Islam|By David Cashin|This work is very expensive but an absolute must have for all who study the early history of Islam. J. D. Howard-Johnston has assembled all the significant contemporary and near contemporary historical sources both Muslim and non-Muslim in a powerful historiographical research project. This is scholarship at its be| ||"This book will rightly take its place as a pivotal study in the historiography of late antiquity. The author's learning is prodigious and his methodology painstaking. Based on some four decades of intensive reading, writing, and teaching, Witness to a Wo

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-...

You easily download any file type for your device.Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century   |  James Howard-Johnston.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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