The Great Islamic Conquests AD 632–750
, by NICOLLE, DAVIDNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781846032738 | 1846032733
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/19/2009
Few military campaigns in history have been as dramatic, as successful, or as far-reaching as the early Islamic conquests. Emerging from a tribal area of Arabia sandwiched between two great empires, the forces of the new religion soon destroyed one empire and humbled another. Within a century, the Islamic realm had borders with France in the west and with India and China in the east, and this new civilization was on the cusp of a great 'Golden Age' of cultural and scientific blossoming. Yet although Islam's early conquests rank with those of Alexander the Great and the Roman Caesars, its achievements have arguably outlasted both, with large parts of the world still retaining the language, influences and religion that the conquests brought. Book jacket.