G.W. Bowersock The crucible of Islam

Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century CE. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from the Iberian peninsula to India. Today, Muslims account for nearly a quarter of the global population. G. W. Bowersock seeks to illuminate this most obscure and yet most dynamic period in the history of Islam--from the mid-sixth to mid-seventh century--exploring why arid Arabia proved to be such fertile ground for Muhammad's prophetic message, and why that message...

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Engels | 220 pagina's | Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts | 2017

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G.W. Bowersock Fiction as history

Nero to Julian

Engels | 181 pagina's | University of California Press, Berkeley [etc.] | 1994

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G.W. Bowersock Hellenism in late antiquity

Engels | 109 pagina's | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] | 1990

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G.W. Bowersock Roman Arabia

Engels | 224 pagina's | Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. [etc.] | 1983

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G.W. Bowersock Julian the Apostate

Engels | 135 pagina's | Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA | 1978

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