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020			_a9780190618575 _q(paperback)
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050	0	0	_aDS38.1 _b.h688 2014
082			_aARCH FRBC 909.097 H867I
100	1		_aHoyland, Robert G., _d1966- _eauthor _920444
245	1	0	_aIn God's path : _bthe Arab conquests and the creation of an Islamic empire / _cRobert G. Hoyland
250			_aPaperback edition
260			_aOxford, _bOxford University Press, _c©2015
300			_ax, 303 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
490	1		_aAncient warfare and civilization
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 279-285) and index
505	0		_aThe 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			_aIn 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	_aIslamic Empire _xHistory _y622-661 _920128
651		0	_aIslamic Empire _xHistory _y661-750 _920129
830		0	_aAncient warfare and civilization _920445
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