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The Islamic world in ascendancy : from the Arab conquests to the siege of Vienna

Title: The Islamic world in ascendancy : from the Arab conquests to the siege of Vienna / Martin Sicker.
Author: Sicker, Martin.
Publication: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.

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Description

vi, 232 pages; 24 cm

Subject

Islamic Empire > History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Empire of the Quraish -- 2. The Umayyad Empire -- 3. The Abbasid Empire -- 4. Abbasid Decline and Imperial Disintegration -- 5. The Rise of the Seljukids -- 6. The Period of the First Crusades -- 7. The Era of the Zengids -- 8. Saladin and the Ayyubid Empire -- 9. The Early Thirteenth Century -- 10. The Mongol Onslaught -- 11. Between Mamluks and Mongols -- 12. The Rise of the Ottomans -- 13. The Era of Murad and Bayezid -- 14. Tamerlane -- 15. End of the Byzantine Empire -- 16. Mehmed the Conqueror -- 17. The Rise of the Safavids -- 18. Ottoman Expansionism under Selim -- 19. The Era of Suleiman the Magnificent -- 20. The End of Islamic Ascendancy.

ISBN

0275968928 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00037326

OCLC

43884876
ocm43884876
SCSB-3927200

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries