Witnesses to a world crisis : historians and histories of the Middle East in the seventh century / James Howard-Johnston.

The principal witnesses to the rise of Islam are examined, first contemporary and near‐contemporary non‐Muslims, then later writers with access to good sources of information, and finally the canonical Islamic accounts. As information is extracted from each successive witness, the extraordinary hist...

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Main Author: Howard-Johnston, James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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