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Muhammad and the conquests of Islam / translated from the Italian by Virginia Luling and Rosamund Linell

By: Gabrieli, Francesco, 1904-1996 [author]Contributor(s): Luling, Virginia [translator] | Linell, Rosamund [translator]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: World university libraryPublisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, [1968]Copyright date: ©1968Description: 256 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps (some color) ; 19 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780303175865; 0303175869Uniform titles: Maometto e le grandi conquiste arabe. English Subject(s): Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 | Islamic Empire -- History -- 622-661 | Islamic Empire -- History -- 661-750Genre/Form: History.DDC classification: 953/.02 LOC classification: DS236 | .G33 1968
Contents:
Muhammad in history -- Arabia before Muhammad -- Muhammad in Mecca -- Triumph in Medina -- Islam and the Arab-Muslim state -- The making of the empire -- The Eastern conquests: Iraq and Persia -- The Northern conquests; Syria, Mesopotamis, and Armenia -- The Western conquests : Egypt and North Africa -- Islam in Europe: Spain, France, Italy -- Frontiers to the East -- The achievements of Arab Islam
Summary: The author attempts to explain the astonishing series of conquests which have marked the triumph of Muhammad and his successors, and which in less than a hundred years extended the frontiers of Islam from Samarkand to Toledo
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Translation of Maometto e le grandi conquiste arabe

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-248) and index

Muhammad in history -- Arabia before Muhammad -- Muhammad in Mecca -- Triumph in Medina -- Islam and the Arab-Muslim state -- The making of the empire -- The Eastern conquests: Iraq and Persia -- The Northern conquests; Syria, Mesopotamis, and Armenia -- The Western conquests : Egypt and North Africa -- Islam in Europe: Spain, France, Italy -- Frontiers to the East -- The achievements of Arab Islam

The author attempts to explain the astonishing series of conquests which have marked the triumph of Muhammad and his successors, and which in less than a hundred years extended the frontiers of Islam from Samarkand to Toledo