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1.

The Islamic World in Ascendancy: From the Arab Conquests to the Siege of Vienna » Read Now
by Martin Sicker. 236 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Sicker examines the thousand-year ascendancy of Islam from the Arab conquests to the zenith of Ottoman expansionism under Suleiman the Magnificent. He provides a unique...
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A History of the Seljuks: Ibrahim Kafesoglu's Interpretation and the Resulting Controversy » Read Now
by Gary Leiser, Ibrahim Kafesoglu. 208 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...1. Seljuks. 2. Islamic Empire--History--750-1258...influence on Turco-Islamic and world history...founding both a great empire in the Middle East...Khurasan for the Seljuk...
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Mohammed and Charlemagne » Read Now
by Henri Pirenne. 293 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...which the institutions of the late Roman Empire had left upon those of the Frankish epoch...wonderful human structure, the Roman Empire, 1 the most striking, and also...
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Arabs, Persians, and the Advent of the Abbasids Reconsidered, in The Journal of the American Oriental Society » Read Now
by Elton L. Daniel. 6 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...transformed and incorporated into Islamic institutions and culture. After...against the Sasanid monarchy, the empire crumbled. He argues that while...the abna (from those...
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Religious Inquisition as Social Policy: The Persecution of the 'Zanadiqa' in the early Abbasid Caliphate, in Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) » Read Now
by Mahmood Ibrahim. 20 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...as defenders of an Islamic empire and the Abbasids...classes of the Sasanid empire were revived within an Islamic framework. Significantly...and since the pre-Islamic Arab...
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The Succession to the Caliph Musa al-Hadi, in The Journal of the American Oriental Society » Read Now
by Richard Kimber. 21 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Abbasid.sup.subset Call to al-Rida," in The Islamic World from Classical to Modern Times...Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity (Cambridge, 1980), 180...
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A History of the Arab Peoples » Read Now
by Albert Habib Hourani. 531 pgs.
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History of the Arabs: From the Earliest Times to the Present » Read Now
by Philip K. Hitti. 826 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...PART I THE PRE-ISLAMIC AGE CHAPTER...UMAYYAD AND ABBASID EMPIRES CHAPTER...The Ottoman Empire at its height, ca...PART I THE PRE-ISLAMIC AGE CHAPTER I THE...figured later...
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The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization -Christian, Islamic, and Judaic - from Constantine to Dante: A.D. 325-1300 » Read Now
by Will Durant. 1196 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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The decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude: Seventh-Twentieth Century » Read Now
by Bat Yeor. 526 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...1. Dhimmis. 2. Islamic Empire--Ethnic relations...relationship of this empire with the West--an...would conquer several Islamic countries and, on...spiritually reborn into...
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The Mind of the Middle Ages, A.D. 200-1500: An Historical Survey (Chap. 5 "Islamic Civilization") » Read Now
by Frederick B. Artz. 568 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...BYZANTIUM 129 CHAPTER V. Islamic Civilization 132 1. THE...Hellenistic states and still later in the Roman Empire. Both these high gods and the innumerable...it even...
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Islamic Political Thought: The Basic Concepts » Read Now
by W. Montgomery Watt. 188 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...non-Muslim groups within the Islamic empire had an arrangement of the kind...for it. In the early days of the Islamic empire the Christian inhabitants of...of as a military...
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The Islamic World from Classical to Modern Times: Essays in Honor of Bernard Lewis » Read Now
by C. E. Bosworth, Charles Issawi. 915 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate AD 661-750 » Read Now
by G. R. Hawting. 152 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Gerald Hawting's book has long been acknowledged as the standard introductory survey of this complex period in Arab and Islamic history. Now it is once more made available...