LEADER 03079nam 2200613 450 001 9910463701503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-020965-8 010 $a0-19-061857-4 010 $a0-19-991637-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000570631 035 $a(EBL)1789284 035 $a(OCoLC)893186808 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001369790 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11914977 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001369790 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11290829 035 $a(PQKB)10530026 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1789284 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1789284 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10952681 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL650462 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000570631 100 $a20141025h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn God's path $ethe Arab conquests and the creation of an Islamic empire /$fRobert G. Hoyland 210 1$aOxford, [England] ;$aNew York, New York :$cOxford University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 225 1 $aAncient Warfare and Civilization 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-991636-5 311 $a1-322-19182-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Cover""; ""Series""; ""In Goda???s Path""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter One The Setting""; ""Chapter Two The First Battles (630a???640)""; ""Chapter Three Eastward and Westward (640a???652)""; ""Chapter Four The Push for Constantinople (652a???685)""; ""Chapter Five The Great Leap Forward (685a???715)""; ""Chapter Six Retrenchment and Revolt (715a???750)""; ""Chapter Seven The Making of Islamic Civilization""; ""Appendix: Sources and Source Critical Remarks""; ""Timeline""; ""Dramatis Personae"" 327 $a""Genealogical Tables of Quraysh and the Umayyads""""Notes""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""index"" 330 $aIn just over a hundred years--from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750--the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. Their armies threatened states as far flung as the Franks in Western Europe and the Tang Empire in China. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion, and it was claimed for the Arabs in roughly half the time. How this collection of Arabian tribes was able to engulf so many empires, states, and armies in such a short period has perplexed historians 410 0$aAncient warfare and civilization. 607 $aIslamic Empire$xHistory$y622-661 607 $aIslamic Empire$xHistory$y661-750 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a909/.09767 700 $aHoyland$b Robert G.$f1966-$0898389 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463701503321 996 $aIn God's path$92007240 997 $aUNINA