Wednesday 8 April 2009

The Great Caliphs


Amira K. Bennison
I.B. Tauris

An account of the achievements of the ‘Abbasid age, which challenges popular conceptions about the Arab conquests, revealing significant continuity between the ‘Abbasid caliphate, which flourished between 750 and 1258, and the great civilizations of antiquity which it overran.

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