Mohammed and the Rise of Islam
Overview
Not a religious text designed to either celebrate or denigrate Islam, this classic biography looks at Mohammed as a towering figure of culture and politics, a man who achieved the extraordinary: uniting disparate Arab tribes into more cohesive whole. Author DAVID S. MARGOLIOUTH (1858-1940), a professor of Arabic at Oxford University, worked from primary Arabic texts and omitted "all anecdotes that are obviously or most probably fabulous," resulting in a clear-headed history of a highly contentious moment in time. It remains an important work for anyone wishing to understand the roots of one of the most intractable sociopolitical divides-between East and West, Muslim and Christian-still haunting the world today. __________________________ ALSO FROM COSIMO Margoliouth's The Early Development of Mohammedanism
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- ISBN-13: 9781602060180
- ISBN-10: 1602060185
- Publisher: Cosimo Classics
- Publish Date: December 2006
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.27 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.81 pounds
- Page Count: 568
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