The Great Arab Conquests

This history of Arabia's overpowering cultural expansion across the globe is “a brisk account of Islam's momentous first century” ( New York Times ). Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated a territory with an east-west expanse greater than the Roman Empire, and they did it in about one-half the time. By the mid-eighth century, Arab armies had conquered the thousand-year-old Persian Empire,