Books by Patricia Crone and Michael Cook.
Hagarism
by Patricia Crone and Michael Cook.
The authors looked long and hard at what non-Arabic sources tell us about the rise of Islam, about this new prophet Mohammed. Cook and Crone shed much light on how Mohammed united the Arab tribes and, of course, how Byzantium was so fundamentally changed by the rise of Islam.
Interviews where books by Patricia Crone and Michael Cook. were recommended
The best books on Byzantium, recommended by Judith Herrin
Byzantine scholar Judith Herrin, professor emerita at King’s College London, selects five books to help us understand the place of Byzantium in world civilisation.
