List of Maps
Introduction
1: Arabia Before Islam
2: Muhammad and the Rise of Islam
3: The Age of the Conquests
4: The Arab Kingdom
5: The Islamic Empire
6: 'The Revolt of Islam'
7: The Arabs in Europe
8: Islamic Civilization
9: The Arabs in Eclipse
10: The Impact of the West
Chronological Table
Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies, and Long-Term Member of the Institute for Advance Study, Princeton University. He has published numerous books on the Middle East, including, The Assassins, Race and Slavery in the Middle East: A Historical Enquiry, and The Middle East.
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challenges and crises both faced and precipitated by the Arabs in
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`... enormously influential history ... after reading 'Gibbon on
Muhammad', it is tempting to speculate that Lewis's long-standing
interest in the eighteenth-century historian may have influenced
his own ambition to scan grand horizons, his taste for irony and
his unmistakably elegant literary style.'
Robert Irwin, Middle Eastern Studies
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