TY  - BOOK
AU  - Matthew S.Gordon
TI  - The Rise of Islam
T2  - Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World
SN  - 9780872209312
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Indianapolis, Cambridge
PB  - Hackett Pub. Co.
KW  - Islam
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-169) and index; Historical overview -- The Arab-Islamic conquests and the Medinan state -- The Umayyad caliphate (661-750) and the crisis of authority -- Cities in the early Abbasid period -- Religious practice, law, and spirituality in the early Abbasid era -- The Islamic world in the early tenth century
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0903/2008022277.html
ER  -