In just over a hundred years—from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750—the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. Their armies threatened states as far afield as the Franks in Western Europe and the Tang Empire in China. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its ...(展开全部)

作者簡介 羅伯特‧霍伊蘭 ( Robert G. Hoyland ) 羅伯特‧霍伊蘭是位歷史學者，專門研究中東地區中世紀的歷史。他是知名歷史學家派翠西亞‧克隆博士（Patricia Crone）的學生，曾經在英國牛津大學彭布羅克學院取得萊弗爾梅信託基金會的研究學者身分（Leverhulme Fellow）。他目前任教於美國紐約大學古代世界研究所，教授古典時代晚期和伊斯蘭早期的中東歷史。在此之前，他曾經擔任過英國牛津大學東方研究所教授，教授伊斯蘭歷史，也曾在英國蘇格蘭東海岸古鎮聖安德魯斯公立大學（University of St. Andrews）擔任歷史教授，還曾經在加州大學洛杉磯分校（UCLA）教授歷史。 霍伊蘭的研究興趣在於下列幾個重點： 1.有關在現代以前，居住在中東地區的穆斯林、猶太人和基督徒三者之間的關係； 2.在伊斯蘭興起之前和伊斯蘭興起...(展开全部)

In just over a hundred years—from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750—the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. Their armies threatened states as far afield as the Franks in Western Europe and the Tang Empire in China. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its ...(展开全部)

As he did in his classic Synchronicity, Joseph Jaworski once again takes us on a mind-expanding journey, this time to the very heart of creativity and deep knowing.

In 1552, Muscovite Russia conquered the city of Kazan on the Volga River. It was the first Orthodox Christian victory against Islam since the fall of Constantinople, a turning point that, over the next four years, would complete Moscow’s control over the river. This conquest provided a direct trade route with the Middle East and would transform Muscovy into a global power. As M...(展开全部)

For much of the twentieth century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic world in the seventeenth century was ignored or mischaracterized by historians. Ottomanists typically saw the seventeenth century as marking the end of Ottoman cultural florescence, while modern Arab nationalist historians tended to see it as yet another century of intellectual darkness u...(展开全部)

In the thirteenth century the Mongols created a vast, transcontinental empire that intensified commercial and cultural contact throughout Eurasia. From the outset of their expansion, the Mongols identified and mobilized artisans of diverse backgrounds, frequently transporting them from one cultural zone to another. Prominent among those transported were Muslim textile workers, ...(展开全部)

It proposes a convincing contemporary answer answer to an ages-old mystery and conundrum: why, in the seventh century CE, did the seemingly powerful and secure Sasanian empire of Persia succumb so quickly and disastrously to the all-conquering Arab armies of Islam? Offering an impressive appraisal of the Sasanians' nemesis at the hands of the Arab forces which scythed all befor...(展开全部)