In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 15127
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780199916368
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- In God’s Path, based on a decade of research, revises conventional accounts of the Islamic conquest in the 8th century delving into non-Muslim (primarily Christian) 8th century sources written in languages other than Arabic (Aramaic, Latin, Greek, Coptic, Armenian) rather than Arabic sources from later periods which inevitably reflect the sensibilities of the time of their writing rather than the time of the events they recount. The book aims to account for the rapid rise of the Islamic empire, arguing that it is better understood as an Arab empire, and that the role of Islam was more integrative than coercive.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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