The Great Arab Conquests

About this book

The Great Arab Conquests by Hugh Kennedy, a professor of Arabic at SOAS, tells how in the century after the Prophet's ﷺ death, Muslim rule spread from Arabia to Spain in the west and Central Asia in the east.

Kennedy uses Arabic and non-Muslim sources to describe the campaigns in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Iran, North Africa and Spain, and explains how a relatively small number of Arabs came to rule such vast territories and how local populations adapted.

It is gripping narrative history.

What's inside

• The conquests of Syria and Iraq
• Egypt and North Africa
• Iran and Central Asia
• Spain
• How the new empire was governed