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100 1 $aHolland, Tom.
245 10 $aIn the shadow of the sword :$bthe birth of Islam and the rise of the global Arab empire /$cTom Holland.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c©2012.
300 $ax, 526 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$bcolor illustrations, map ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 481-507) and index.
505 0 $apt. I. Introduction. Known unknowns -- pt. II. Jahiliyya. Iranshahr ; New Rome ; The children of Abraham ; Countdown to apocalypse -- pt. III. Hijra. More questions than answers ; The forging of Islam -- Envoi: plus c̜a change? -- Timeline -- Dramatis personae.
520 $a"The remarkable story of an imperial civilization that endures as perhaps the only one to have survived from antiquity into the present day. 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 of manifest destiny that is dazzlingly rich in drama, character, and achievement. Just like the Romans, the Arabs came from nowhere; yet by 632, when the Prophet Muhammad is supposed to have died, all the tribes of the Arabian peninsula had come to acknowledge the authority of his teachings. During the next two hundred years, they carved out a stupefyingly vast dominion, overcoming seemingly insuperable odds to emerge triumphant against the greatest empire of the day."--Book cover.
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