MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2010290365
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008 100120s2009 enkab b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9781846032738 (pbk.)
020 $a1846032733 (pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn212855755
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050 00 $aDS38.2$b.N536 2009
082 04 $a909.0976701$222
100 1 $aNicolle, David,$d1944-
245 14 $aThe great Islamic conquests AD 632-750 /$cDavid Nicolle.
260 $aOxford :$bOsprey,$c2009.
300 $a96 p. :$bill. (some col.), col. maps ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aEssential histories ;$v71
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aChronology -- Background to war: Pre-Islamic Arabia -- Outbreak: The birth of Islam and the unifying of Arabia -- The warring sides: Armies of the Middle East and the Mediterranean -- The fighting: A rising religion meets tired empires -- Portrait of a soldier: Two warriors of Arabia -- From conquest to Empire: The Umayyad century -- How the war ended: The fall of the Umayyad dynasty -- The world around the war: Architecture and religion -- Portrait of a civilian: A man of letters and a man of God -- Conclusion.
651 0 $aIslamic Empire$xHistory$y622-661.
651 0 $aIslamic Empire$xHistory$y661-750.
651 0 $aIslamic Empire$xHistory, Military.
830 0 $aEssential histories (Osprey Publishing) ;$v71.