The Caliphate 
Subtitle: Its Rise and Fall (Orientalism, Volume 3)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780415209014
Subjects: World history; Islamic History; Religion - World Religions; History: World; Other Geographical Groupings, Oceans & Seas; Islam - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Middle East - General; Caliphate; History; Islamic Empire
First sentence: IT was Midsummer in the year 632 of our era, when the Prophet of Arabia passed away.