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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2010. A groundbreaking study of the period when the final struggles between the empires of Rome and Persia, and then the explosion of Islamic warriors, transformed the political and religious world.
Full Description
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 the creation of a new world empire by the Arabs, all in the space of not much more than a generation (610-52 AD). Warfare looms large, especially where operations can be followed in some detail, as in Iraq 636-40, in Egypt 641-2 and in the long-drawn out battle for the Mediterranean (649-98). As the first history of the formative phase of Islam to be grounded in the important non-Islamic as well as Islamic sources Witnesses to a World Crisis is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand Islam as a religion and political force, the modern Middle East, and the jihadist impulse, which is as evident today as it was in the seventh century.
Contents
1. George of Pisidia ; 2. Two Universal Chronicles ; 3. Seventh-Century Eastern Sources I: The History of Khosrov ; 4. Seventh-Century Eastern Sources II: The History to the Year 682 and the Khuzistan Chronicle ; 5. Supplementary Roman Sources of the Seventh Century I ; 6. Supplementary Roman Sources of the Seventh Century II ; 7. Later Historians: The West Syrian Tradition ; 8. Later Historians: Nicephorus ; 9. Later Historians: Theophanes ; 10. Later Historians at Work in Egypt, Iraq, and Iran ; 11. Early Islamic Historical Writing ; 12. The Life of the Prophet ; 13. Historians of the Middle East in the Seventh Century ; 14. The Middle East in the Seventh Century: The Great Powers, Arabia, and the Prophet ; 15. The Middle East in the Seventh Century: Arab Conquests ; 16. The Middle East in the Seventh Century: A New World Order ; Conclusion