Note 5 retrouvez in the shadow of the sword the birth of islam and the rise of the global arab empire et des millions de livres en stock sur amazonfr achetez neuf ou doccasion. In the shadow of the sword by tom holland is an overview of the predecessors of islam and islams first hundred years the first 75 of the book covers the centuries immediately before islam up to about the year 610 and the last 25 covers mohammed the quran and the first century of islamic expansion hollands premise is that islams birth was more of an evolution than a revolution that islam was in continuity with what went before and around it. In the shadow of the sword the birth of islam and the rise of the global arab empire tom holland knopf doubleday publishing group may 15 2012 religion 448 pages 9 reviews the acclaimed author of rubicon and other superb works of popular history now produces a thrillingly panoramic and incredibly timely account of the rise of islam no less significant than the collapse of the . In the shadow of the sword the birth of islam and the rise of the global arab empire 202012 identifier ark ark 13960 t13p2202f ocr tesseract 411 ocr autonomous true ocr detected lang en ocr detected lang conf 10000 ocr detected script latin arabic ocr detected script conf 09670 00277 ocr module version 0010 ocr parameters l eng lat . In the shadow of the sword the birth of islam and the rise of the global arab empire item preview remove circle share or embed this item embed embed for wordpresscom hosted blogs and archiveorg item description tags want more advanced embedding details examples and help no favorite share flag flag this item for graphic violence graphic sexual content texts in the shadow of