TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bishai,Wilson B.
TI  - Islamic history of the Middle East: backgrounds, development, and fall of the Arab Empire 
AV  - DS236.B622.I853 1968 
PY  - 1968///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Allyn and Bacon
N1  - 1; Part I: Geography in the Middle East --; Introduction --; The fertile crescent --; The Nile valley --; The Arabian penninsula --; Part II: Semitic backgrounds of the Arab world --; Arabia: Home of the Semites --; The Semites in Mesopotamia --; The Semites in Egypt --; The Semites in Canaan --; Part III: Pre-Islamic Arabia --; Historical backgrounds --; Religious backgrounds --; Socio-Economic backgrounds --; Three roles of leadership --; Part IV: The Islamic religion --; Muhammad, the prophet of Islam --; Islamic beliefs and devotional duties --; The Qur'an --; The traditions --; Part V: Beginning of the Islamic state --; Migration to Madina --; Between Makka and Madina --; Capture of Makka --; The Islamic state --; Part Virgin Islands: The orthodox caliphate, 632-661 --; Abu Bakr, 632-634 --; Umar, 634-644 --; Uthman, 644-656 --; Ali, 656-661 --; Part Virgin IslandsI: The Umayyad dynasty, 661-750 --; Umayya versus Hashim --; Abd al-Malik, 685-705 --; Walid, I, 705-715 --; Decline of the Umayyad regime --; Fall of the Umayyad dynasty --; Part Virgin IslandsII: The early Abbasid period, 750-861 --; Abbasids versus Umayyads --; The first two Abbasid caliphs --; The Abbasid golden age --; Fratricidal conflicts --; The beginning of decline --; Part IX: Forces controlling the Abbasid caliphate --; Regional dynasties in Western Asia --; The Umayyad dynasty in Spain, 756-1031 --; Regional dynasties in North Africa --; Regional dynasties in Egypt --; Part X: The Arabic-Islamic society --; State administration --; Islamic sects --; Islamic scholarship --; Tribalism and society; 2
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