The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In
Големите арабски завоевания. Как ислямът промени света
Category: Medieval history; Near East; Arabian Studies
Language: Bulgarian

     The Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over 100 years following the death of Muhammad in 632 AD, Arabs had subjugated a territory with an east-west expanse greater than the Roman Empire and they did it in about one-half the time. By the mid-8 c. AD Arab armies had conquered the 1000-year-old Persian Empire, reduced the Byzantine Empire to little more than a city-state based around Constantinople and destroyed the Visigoth kingdom of Spain. The cultural and linguistic effects of this early Islamic expansion reverberate today.

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