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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Useful insights,
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This review is from: Great Arab Conquests (Paperback)
The book is an easy read, which is unusual for any history but especially for one as thorough as this one. The writing is clear, the details are vivid, and when some detail is subject to debate, the author tells you so. Anyone who wants to understand the ferment in the Muslim world today, should begin with this book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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HOW THE WORLD WAS CHANGED FOREVER,
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This review is from: Great Arab Conquests (Paperback)
The Arab-Islamic conquests from 632 to 680 is the main focus of this truly excellent book. Glubb tells the story of how a backward, poor and ignorant people conquered much of the known world in a few years time, bringing with them a new religion. He begins with a life of Muhammed, and ends with a caliph's death in 680, when the conquests stopped temporarily. The magic of this period really comes across, and the reader feels at times like an overhead observer, floating over Arabia in Ancient times.
An interesting feature of this book is that was written in the early 1960's, before the contemporary troubles with Islam began. The author's writing reflects this, in that it is neither politicaly correct nor overtly hostile to Arabs. The subjects are presented as brave and devout, but hobbled by cultural weaknesses that survive to this day. Glubb's arguments are all the stronger as he lived among the Arabs for many years. I only wish he would have continued up through the 730's, when Islam had invaded as far as France and China. Glubb appeared to have little interest in this, and even implied these later invasions were likely to fail as the world no longer feared the Arabs by then! I don't believe this is right. The empire, it is true, was no longer purely Arab after the 680's, but the conquests were still Islamic, and would have made this book still more interesting and informative. Still, those interested in the rise of Islam should be sure to read this book
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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An excellent history of the battles of Muhammad.,
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This review is from: Great Arab Conquests (Paperback)
This book tells the history of how Muhammad conquered the Middle East.After reading this book, I was talking to a Muslim friend and he was surprised to hear stuff he learned as a kid coming from someone that was not a Muslim! A great book!
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