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In its first thousand years-from the revelations to Muhammad in the seventh century to the great Islamic empires of the sixteenth-Islamic civilization flourished. While Europeans suffered through the Dark Ages, Muslims in such cities as Jerusalem, Damascus, Alexandria, Fez, Tunis, Cairo, and... read more

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IN THE LATE SIXTH AND EARLY SEVENTH CENTURIES, TWO great powers-the Byzantines and the Sasanians-ruled the Near East.

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  1. Jonathan Bloom (Author)
 

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