The rise of Islam
By: Matthew S. Gordon.
Series: Greenwood guides to historic events of the medieval world
Publisher: Hackett Pub. Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Indianapolis, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780872209312
Subjects: Islam -- History
Notes: Originally published: Westport, Conn. :  Greenwood Press, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-169) and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical overview; title: The Arab-Islamic conquests and the Medinan state; title: The Umayyad caliphate (661-750) and the crisis of authority; title: Cities in the early Abbasid period; title: Religious practice, law, and spirituality in the early Abbasid era; title: The Islamic world in the early tenth century.