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The Arab Conquests

Further Reading

Hugh Kennedy, The Great Arab Conquests: How The Spread Of Islam Changed The World We Live In (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007)

Robert Hoyland, Arabia and the Arabs (London: Routledge, 2001)

Jonathan Berkey, The Formation of Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Francisco Gabrieli, Muhammad and the Conquests of Islam (London, 1968)

John Glubb, The Great Arab Conquests (Hodder and Stoughton, 1963)


More Specialist Texts:

Fred Donner, The Early Islamic Conquests (Princeton, 1981)

John Jandora, The March From Medina: A Revisionist Study of the Arab Conquests (Princeton, Darwin Press, 1990)

Walter Kaegi, Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests (Cambridge, 1992)

Roger Collins, The Arab Conquest of Spain 710-797 (1994)

Parvaneh Pourshariati, Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran (I B Tauris, London, 2008)

Martin Sicker, The Islamic World in Ascendancy: From the Arab Conquests to the Siege of Vienna (Praeger Publishers, 2000)


Links

The Early Islamic Conquests by Fred Donner (extract from his book)

Internet Islamic History Sourcebook

About.com: Medieval Islam

Wikipedia


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