Little is known about sixth-century Arabia. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from Iberia to India. G. W. Bowersock illuminates this obscure yet most dynamic period in Islam, exploring why...

The Crucible of Islam von Bowersock, G. W.

Leading historian G.W. Bowersock provides a narrative account of a fascinating but overlooked chapter in pre-Islamic Arabian history -- the holy war between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs in the sixth century AD. von Bowersock, G W

In this book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel, the famed historian G. W. Bowersock presents a searching examination of political developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of the rise of Islam....

"Roman Arabia" von G. W. Bowersock ist eine umfassende historische Untersuchung über die Region Arabia während der römischen Herrschaft. Bowersock beleuchtet die Integration der arabischen Gebiete in das Römische Reich und untersucht,...