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In the Shadow of the Sword
Tom Holland
The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire [
Doubleday
May 2012
On Sale: May 15, 2012
544 pages ISBN: 0385531354 EAN: 9780385531351 Kindle: B005IEGKMA Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction History | Non-Fiction Religion
The acclaimed author of Rubicon and other superb works of
popular history now produces a thrillingly panoramic (and
incredibly timely) account of the rise of Islam.
No less significant than the collapse of the Roman Republic
or the Persian invasion of Greece, the evolution of the Arab
empire is one of the supreme narratives of ancient history,
a story dazzlingly rich in drama, character, and
achievement. Just like the Romans, the Arabs came from
nowhere to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion—except
that they achieved their conquests not over the course of
centuries as the Romans did but in a matter of decades. Just
like the Greeks during the Persian wars, they overcame
seemingly insuperable odds to emerge triumphant against the
greatest empire of the day—not by standing on the defensive,
however, but by hurling themselves against all who lay in
their path.
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