Introduction
Empire of the Quraish
The Umayyad Empire
The Abbasid Empire
Abbasid Decline and Imperial Disintegration
The Rise of the Seljukids
The Period of the First Crusades
The Era of the Zengids
Saladin and the Ayyubid Empire
The Eary Thirteenth Century
The Mongol Onslaught
Between Mamluks and Mongols
The Rise of the Ottomans
The Era of Murad and Bayezid
Tamerlane
End of the Byzantine Empire
Mehmed the Conqueror
The Rise of the Safavids
Ottoman Expansionism under Selim
The Era of Suleiman the Magnificent
The End of Islamic Ascendancy
Bibliography
MARTIN SICKER is a private consultant and lecturer who has served as a senior executive in the U.S. government and has taught political science at American University and George Washington University. Dr. Sicker has written extensively in the fields of political science and international affairs, with a special focus on the Middle East. He is the author of twelve previous books, including a companion volume in his multi-volume history of the Middle East, The Pre-Islamic Middle East (Praeger, 2000).
?By reading this book the reader gets exposed to a wide range of
fascinating issues, indeed.?-American Review of China Studies
?Sicker's narrative is a usable sythesis of this material and as
such can be recommended to nonspecialists as a brief introduction
to the political history of the premodern Middle East.?-The
Historian
"By reading this book the reader gets exposed to a wide range of
fascinating issues, indeed."-American Review of China Studies
"Sicker's narrative is a usable sythesis of this material and as
such can be recommended to nonspecialists as a brief introduction
to the political history of the premodern Middle East."-The
Historian
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