When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty by Hugh Kennedy

When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty

Hugh Kennedy

481 pages • first pub 2004 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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The "golden age of Islam" in the eighth and ninth centuries was as significant to world history as the Roman Empire was in the first and second centuries. The rule of Baghdad's Abbasid Dynasty stretched from Tunisia to India, and its legacy influe...

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