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Land and trade in early Islam : the economy of the Islamic Middle East 750-1050 CE / edited by Hugh Kennedy and Fanny Bessard

Part I: Economic Exceptionalism in Early Islam: Myth or Reality? -- The Late Antique and Byzantine Context to early Islamic Mercantile Activity / Peter Sarris -- An Islamic Agricultural Revolution / ...
Wall Street Journal

A Mosque Over 1,200 Years Old Was Just Discovered in Israeli Desert

Archaeologists in Israel say they discovered an ancient mosque in the Negev desert, providing details of early Islamic history in the region. The mosque is over 1,200 years old and dates back to the ...
Washington Examiner

A universal history of the Muslim world

A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity; By Michael A. Cook; Princeton University Press; 960 pp., $39.95 “The text,” Ted replies. “OK, that’s right. But they never ...
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Zoroastrians in early Islamic history accommodation and memory Andrew D. Magnusson

Introduction: Zoroastrianism, Islam and Accommodation -- 1 Myth and Countermyth in Zoroastrian Historiography -- 2 Umar's Dilemma: The Taxation of People Without a Book -- 3 Marriage, Meat and the ...