Arabs: A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
“Anyone hoping to understand, let alone write about the Middle East, will need to read and inhale this profound, witty and scholarly achievement.” —Barnaby Rogerson, author of The Last Crusaders.
“Arab power reached a peak in the ninth century, when the Abbasid dinar was the equivalent of the US dollar”
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