The great Islamic conquests AD 632-750
By: David Nicolle.
Series: Essential histories -- 71; Essential histories (Osprey Publishing) -- 71.
Publisher: Osprey
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781846032738
Subjects: Islamic Empire -- History -- 622-661; Islamic Empire -- History -- 661-750; Islamic Empire -- History, Military
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chronology; title: Background to war: Pre-Islamic Arabia; title: Outbreak: The birth of Islam and the unifying of Arabia; title: The warring sides: Armies of the Middle East and the Mediterranean; title: The fighting: A rising religion meets tired empires; title: Portrait of a soldier: Two warriors of Arabia; title: From conquest to Empire: The Umayyad century; title: How the war ended: The fall of the Umayyad dynasty; title: The world around the war: Architecture and religion; title: Portrait of a civilian: A man of letters and a man of God; title: Conclusion.