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Islamic peoples account for one fifth of the world's population and yet there is widespread misunderstanding in the West of what Islam really is. Francis Robinson and his team set out to address this, revealing the complex and sometimes contrary nature of Muslim culture. As well as taking on... read more

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Of the Middle East in about AD 600 one thing can be said for certain: its chances of being conquered by Arab tribesmen in the name of a new religion were so remote that nobody had even speculated that it might happen.

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date: 1996
ISBN: 0521435102
Page Count: 352

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  1. history
  2. medieval
  3. middle ages
  4. near east 

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