Lägg till bokmärkeThe Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the 6th to the 11th Century (2nd Edition) (A History Of The Near East)
Based on original Arabic sources, the new edition of this well-established text has been comprehensively revised. The book covers the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam, through the great days of the Ummayad and Abbasid Caliphates (8th-10th centuries), to the period of political fragmentation which followed it when Islam lost its core unity, never to be recovered.
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It's a very useful introduction to Islamic history and, as already stated, a good textbook. However, it is extremely focussed on the military events and successions of the Caliph and as such presupposes that these are more important than other developments without any reinforcement of this theory. Despite this, it is a great starting point and well worth a read :)
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Succint and clear narratives of complex events abound making this one of the ideal textbooks for early Islamic history. The book neglects, however, intellectual history almost entirely.
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