Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century by James Howard-Johnston

Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century

James Howard-Johnston

573 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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James Howard-Johnston provides a sweeping and highly readable account of probably the most dramatic single episode in world history - the emergence of a new religion (Islam), the destruction of two established great powers (Roman and Iranian), and...

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