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Arab Conquests
«This book delivers drama through sublime writing, but mainly through marvellous images... As sharp as the Arabian desert in the midday sun'»
Gerard DeGroot, The Times
The story of the Muslim conquests of the 7th and 8th centuries AD, when armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula, destroying two great empires in the process. Les mer
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The story of the Muslim conquests of the 7th and 8th centuries AD, when armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula, destroying two great empires in the process.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Apollo
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 256
- ISBN
- 9781838933401
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 20 x 14 cm
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«This book delivers drama through sublime writing, but mainly through marvellous images... As sharp as the Arabian desert in the midday sun'»
Gerard DeGroot, The Times
«Marozzi's sense of landscape [...] and five appendices from different contemporary sources, gives The Arab Conquests particular immediacy and authenticity»
Catholic Herald
«Thoroughly good fun... The narration moves swiftly but gracefully from episode to episode'»
Sunday Times
«An excellent prelude to Marozzi's previous books»
Spectator
«A refreshing and fair retelling of arguably the most important and influential social upheaval of the Middle Ages»
Middle East Monitor
«A travel writer and historian blended into one, he delivers drama through fine writing, but also through marvellous images. In this beautiful book illustrations stir the imagination in a way that mere words cannot»
The Times, '21 best history books of 2021'
«A swashbuckling tale with a racy narrative, vibrant evocations of place, characteristic sense of humour and clever use of original sources»
Aspects of History
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