Witnesses to a world crisis
historians and histories of the Middle East in the seventh century
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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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Witnesses to a world crisis, J. D. Howard-Johnston
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2011
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- Titel
- Witnesses to a world crisis
- Untertitel
- historians and histories of the Middle East in the seventh century
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- J. D. Howard-Johnston
- Verlag
- Oxford University Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2011
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 573
- ISBN10
- 0199694990
- ISBN13
- 9780199694990
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Religiöse Themen, Sonstige Geschichte
- Bewertung
- 4,35 von 5 Sternen
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- 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.