Tom Holland
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed author of Rubicon No less significant than the collapse of the Roman Republic or the Persian invasion of Greece, the evolution of the Arab empire is one of the supreme narratives of ancient history, a story dazzlingly rich in drama, character, and achievement. Just like the Romans, the Arabs came from nowhere to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion—except that they achieved their conquests not over the course of centuries as...