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On the eve of Islam: archaeological evidence from Eastern Arabia.(Focus On Islam I)

Introduction

'Few events in human history have transformed the face of such a large part of the globe as rapidly and as decisively as did the expansion of early Islam' is Fred Donner's somewhat Churchillian assessment of the historical significance of the early Islamic conquests (Donner 1981: 3). There is no doubt, though, that he is right. The emergence, from the sparsely populated and relatively under-developed Arabian Peninsula, of the force that was utterly and irrevocably to transform the face of antiquity is amongst the most extraordinary of historical phenomena.

Little is known about the conquests and there is still considerable scholarly disagreement about ...

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