The Expansion of the Early Islamic StateFred McGraw Donner This volume presents a selection of the key studies in which leading scholars since the beginning of the 20th century attempt to explain the phenomenally rapid expansion of the early Islamic state during the 7th century CE. The articles debate the causes for the conquest movement or expansion, the reasons for its success, the nature of the movement itself, the impact the expansion had on the countries affected by it, and the complex questions surrounding the sources on which historians have constructed their views of the expansion, and the reliability (or lack of it) of those sources. No articles devoted to the actual conquest of a given locality are included-hundreds exist-but a fairly extensive bibliography lists many of the more important contributions in this genre. The editor's introduction addresses the phenomenon of the expansion and how scholars have approached and grappled with it. |
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The Art of War of the Arabs and the Supposed Religious Fervour | 1 |
Some Critical and Sociological Remarks on the Arab Conquest | 15 |
A Comparison of the Arab | 37 |
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Abd al-Malik Abū Mūsā al-Başra al-Hurmuzān Albrecht Noth anwatan apocalyptic Arab conquest Arab expansion Arabia armies Averil Cameron Baladhuri battle Berbers BERNARD LEWIS booty Byzantine Byzantium Caetani Cairo Caliphs Cambridge campaigns centralization Chapter Chingis Christian Chronicle conquered conquerors conquête Damascus desert Donner Early Islamic Conquests East economic Egypt example expansion of Islam fact faith Futūḥ G.H. Bousquet Goeje Greek historians historiography Holy ibid Ibn Abd al-Hakam Ifriqiya Iraq Ishmael Islamic history Islamic tradition isnād Israel jizya Khūzistān king kingdom Kitāb land later Leiden Leone Caetani literature Medina military Mongol Monophysite Mu'awiya Muḥammad Muslim narrative Nestorian Nihāwand Nomad as Empire North Africa Nu'man original Patricia Crone Persian Pirenne political Princeton Prophet raids religion religious Robert Brunschvig Roman Sa'd Sasanian Sayf seventh century Syria Syriac source thesis translation tribes troops Tustar Umar Umayyad University Press Uqba Uthman victory warriors