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Leading scholars in the field survey the political and cultural history of Islam from its Late Antique origins until the eleventh century, and provide a cutting-edge discussion of the sources and controversies of early Islamic history, including a survey of numismatics, archaeology and material culture.

This immersive introduction to pre-modern Islam considers the key individuals involved, such as Saladin, the poet Rumi, and the slave-turned-Sultana of Egypt Shajar al-Durr.

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The religious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers and philosophers of the early Muslim world helped to shape the 1, 400-year-long development of today's second-largest world religion. But who were these people? From Prophet Muhammad to fearsome Tamerlane, this book creates a rich narrative of early Islamic civilization.

Leading scholars in the field survey the political and cultural history of Islam from its Late Antique origins until the eleventh century, and provide a cutting-edge discussion of the sources and controversies of early Islamic history, including a survey of numismatics, archaeology and material culture.

Abd al-Malik, who came to promience during the second civil war of early Islam, ruled the Islamic empire from 692 until 705. Not only did he successfully suppress rebellion within the Muslim world and expand its frontiers, but in many respects he founded the empire itself. By about 700, the forms of a new realm which stretched from North Africa in the west to Iran in the east had taken clear shape with 'Abd al-Malik at its head. This book cove...

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The history of northern Mesopotamia from the Islamic conquests until the early Abbasids, first published in 2000.