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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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961411423 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20240325144038.0 |
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161031t20172015nyuab b 001 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0190618574 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780190618575 |
| Qualifying information |
(paperback) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)961411423 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
YDX |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
YDX |
| Modifying agency |
BDX |
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OCLCQ |
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ZQP |
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OCLCF |
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OUB |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
DS38.1 |
| Item number |
.h688 2014 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
ARCH FRBC 909.097 H867I |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Hoyland, Robert G., |
| Dates associated with a name |
1966- |
| Relator term |
author |
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20444 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
In God's path : |
| Remainder of title |
the Arab conquests and the creation of an Islamic empire / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Robert G. Hoyland |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
Paperback edition |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Oxford, |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
©2015 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
x, 303 pages : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations, maps ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Ancient warfare and civilization |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-285) and index |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
The setting -- The first battles (630-640) -- Eastwards and westwards(640-652) -- The push for constantinople (652-685) -- The great leap forward -- (715-715) -- Retrenchment and revolt(715-750) -- The making of islamic civilisation -- Appendix: Sources and source critical remarks |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
In just over a hundred years -- from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750 -- the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. Their armies threatened states as far flung as the Franks in Western Europe and the Tang Empire in China. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion, and it was claimed for the Arabs in roughly half the time. How this collection of Arabian tribes was able to engulf so many empires, states, and armies in such a short period has perplexed historians for centuries. Most accounts of the Arab invasions have been based almost solely on the early Muslim sources, which were composed centuries later to illustrate the divinely chosen status of the Arabs. Robert Hoyland's groundbreaking new history assimilates not only the rich biographical information of the early Muslim sources but also the many non-Arabic sources, contemporaneous or near-contemporaneous with the conquests. In God's Path begins with a broad picture of the Late Antique world prior to the Prophet's arrival, a world dominated by two superpowers: Byzantium and Sasanian Persia. In between these empires, emerged a distinct Arabian identity, which helped forge the inhabitants of western Arabia into a formidable fighting force. The Arabs are the principal actors in this drama yet, as Hoyland shows, the peoples along the edges of Byzantium and Persia -- the Khazars, Bulgars, Avars, and Turks -- all played critical roles in the remaking of the old world order. The new faith propagated by Muhammad and his successors made it possible for many of the conquered peoples to join the Arabs in creating the first Islamic Empire |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Islamic Empire |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
622-661 |
| 9 (RLIN) |
20128 |
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| Geographic name |
Islamic Empire |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
661-750 |
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20129 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Ancient warfare and civilization |
| 9 (RLIN) |
20445 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Archives |
