HIS 225 OCC Rapidity and Extent of the Early Arab Conquest Discussion
*How would you account for the rapidity and extent of the early Arab conquests?*
Anwser the question with no less than 150 word. The book you can use is “Destiny Disrupted” by Tamim Ansary
and Goldschmidt, Al-Marashi – A Concise History of the Middle East and these articles an help. I have also attached the outline for each articles.
The Qur’an:
The Women: From Surah’s 2 and 4
, [At Internet Archive, from CCNY]
3.
Muhammad: Last Sermon
4.
Constitution of Medina,
622 C.E.
5. Al-Baladhuri:
The Battle of The Yarmuk and After
, 636 CE
6.
The Pact of Umar
, 7th-9th Century?
7.
Accounts of the Arab Conquest of Egypt
,
642 CE.
8. Ibn Abd-el-Hakem:
The Islamic Conquest of Spain
.
9.
Arabs, Franks, and the Battle of Poitiers (Tours): Three Accounts
, 732 CE.
10.
An Arab Ambassador in Constantinople
, (late 10th Century CE).
11. Ibn-Miskawaih:
The Experiences of the Nations
, c. 980 CE.
12. Yakut:
Baghdad Under the Abbasids
,
c. 1000 CE.
