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Islam

1928

The present sketch is cocerned with the history of the Muhammadan world and only incidentally with Islam as a religion; its object being to give a brief survey of the rise of the Arabian religion in the seventh century; of the coquests of the outer world by the newly converted Arabs; of the foundation of the Arab Caliphate and of the subsequent establishment of non-Arab Islamic states. [...] At the beginning of the seventh century Yemen and part of the Hadhramaut were in the possession of the Persians while the Syrian frontier was ruled over. by the Gassanids under the suzerainty of the Byzantine Emperor. [...] The incursions into the Roman Empire were brought to a temporary end by the conquest of Syria; but the victory of Qadisiya was only the beginning of the Persian Campaign and hostilities continued between the Muslim armies and those of the Chosroes until A. D. 641 when in the great battle of Nihavand the Persians after a most stubborn resistance were finally crushed and the last Sasanian king [...] It was during the reign of `Abdur-Rahman I. that there arose in the north of Spain the little Christian state of the Asturias with its capital at Oviedo which by the middle of the ninth century seems to have been firmly established and this was the thin edge of the wedge which gradually worked its way into the heart of Moorish Spain and by the thirteenth century had reduced the limits of this pr [...] Apart from the rebellions of the Ghuzz in Khurasan and the repeated revolts of Atsiz there.now arrived on the frontiers of Transoxiana a new enemy in the shape of the Qara-Khitai Turks who had been driven westwards out of Central Asia by the pressure of the Chinese and the Mongols.
philosophy religion
Pages
89
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.141915
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Introductory Note
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Chapter I. Muhammad and His Mission
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Chapter II. The First Four Caliphs
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Chapter III. The Omayyad Caliphs
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Chapter IV. The Abbasid Caliphs
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Chapter V. The Dynasties of Spain North Africa and Egypt
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Chapter VI. The Eastern Provinces and the Rise of the Turks
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Chapter VII. The Khwarazm-Shahs—the Mongols—the IL-Khanids
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Chapter VIII. Tamerlane—the Safavids
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Chapter IX. The Dynasties of India
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Chapter X. The Atabegs#x2014;The Mamluks#x2014;The Ottoman Turks—Afghanistan
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Note
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Bibliography
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Backmatter
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