Fred M. Donner - The Expansion of the Early Islamic State

THE FORMATION OF THE CLASSICAL ISLAMIC WORLD

General Editor: Lawrence I. Conrad

Volume 5

General Editor: Lawrence I. Conrad

THE FORMATION OF THE CLASSICAL ISLAMIC WORLD

General Editor: Lawrence I. Conrad

Volume 5

edited by

Fred M. Donner

First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing

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The expansion of the early Islamic state. - (The formation of the classical Islamic world)

1. Islamic Empire - History - 622-661. 2. Islamic Empire - History - 661-750. 3. Islamic Empire - History, Military

I. Donner, Fred McGraw, 1945

909.09767

US Library of Congress CIP Data
The expansion of the early Islamic state / edited by Fred M. Donner.
p. cm. - (The formation of the classical Islamic world)
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ISBN 978-0-86078-722-8 (alk. paper)
1. Islamic EmpireHistory622-661. Donner, Fred McGraw, 1945

DS38.1.E97 2007
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THE FORMATION OF THE CLASSICAL ISLAMIC WORLD-5

Leone Caetani

G.H. Bousquet

G.H. Bousquet

John J. Saunders

Marius Canard

Gustave E. von Grunebaum

Christian Dcobert

Andrew S. Ehrenkreutz

Walter E. Kaegi

Stephen Ger

Bernard Lewis

Rudi Paret

Albrecht Noth

Robert Brunschvig

Moshe Sharon

Albrecht Noth

Fred McGraw Donner

Chase F. Robinson

S.P. Brock

The chapters in this volume are taken from the sources listed below. The editor and publishers wish to thank the authors, original publishers or other copyright holders for permission to use their material as follows:

: Leone Caetani, Studi di Orientale (Milan, 1911), vol.1, pp. 35571. Translation by Gwendolin Goldbloom. Copyright 2008 Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

G.H. Bousquet, Quelques remarques critiques et sociologiques sur la conqute arabe et les thories mises ce sujet, in Studi Orientalistici in Onore di Giorgio Levi Della Vida