The Rise and Fall of the Arab Empire And the Founding of Western Pre-Eminence

by Collomb, Rodney

• ISBN13: 9781862273276
• ISBN10: 1862273278
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: Spellmount

Summary

Two children are found dead in the forest outside the remote village of Gerasimovka, Western Siberia in 1932. Both have been repeatedly stabbed. Who committed these horrific murders has never been proved, but the elder boy, 13-year-old Pavlik Morozov, quickly became the most famous boy in Soviet history, with children across the country exhorted to emulate him. Catriona Kelly, Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford, explores how Stalin's regime turned Pavlik into a boy martyr and national hero designed to produce good Soviet citizens.

Table of Contents

Arabia and Mohammed the Prophet	p. 1
The Rise of the Arab Empire; the Years of Conquest	p. 7
The Abbasids and the Golden Age of the Caliphate	p. 25
Islamic Spain and the Moors	p. 43
The Koran	p. 47
The Decline and Collapse of the Abbasid Empire	p. 51
Iraq 946 - 1155 AD, Egypt 969 - 1171 AD	p. 71
Resurgent Europe	p. 85
The Crusades	p. 99
The Mamluks Seize Power, 1250 AD	p. 113
The Mongols and the Re-emergence of Persia	p. 121
Mamluk Egypt, 1260-1517 AD	p. 133
The Ottoman Empire	p. 143
The Foundations of Western Civilization - the Roots	p. 167
The Foundations of Western Civilization - the Branches	p. 175
Islamic Education and Modernity	p. 197
The Modern State	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 215
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