The rise of Islam /

Gordon, Matthew,

The rise of Islam / Matthew S. Gordon. - Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company, 2008. - 180 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. - Greenwood guides to historic events of the medieval world .

Originally published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-169) and index.

Historical overview -- The Arab-Islamic conquests and the Medinan state -- The Umayyad caliphate (661-750) and the crisis of authority -- Cities in the early Abbasid period -- Religious practice, law, and spirituality in the early Abbasid era -- The Islamic world in the early tenth century.

9780872209312 (paperback)

2008022277


Islam--History.

BP55 / .G67 2008

297.09/021