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MOHAMMED AND THE RISE OF ISLAM IBD

COSIMO CLASSICS
12 / 2006
9781602060180
Inglês

Sinopse

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 COSIMOMargoliouth?s The Early Development of Mohammedanism