Article: The Arabs, Byzantium and Iran: Studies in Early Islamic History and Culture.(Review)

C.E. Bosworth. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Brookfield, VT.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1996. XII+320 pages, index. Hardcover $89.95.

Reviewed by Ali al-Taie

Although a great amount of classical and modern literature exists on early Arab-Islamic history, many pertinent aspects have not been scrutinized or explored as yet. Thus, when it comes to socio-historical imagination, students of the Middle East may not easily access accurate, comprehensive knowledge about religious and political topics of the early Islamic culture. The seriousness of this problem can be understood if only we recall that the Arab Islamic conquest not only introduced to ...

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