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With this survey, Mikaberidze (history, Louisiana State Univ.; The Battle of Borodino; The A to Z of Georgia) adds considerable depth to available resources about the Muslim world's military history. There are approximately 625 articles on significant battles, campaigns, figures, armies, weapons, treaties, and other topics related to 254 conflicts from the Battle of Badr (623 C.E.) to the current civil strife in Syria and Libya. Alphabetically arranged articles range in scope from "Great Game" and "al Qaeda in Iraq" to six separate "Constantinople, Treaty of" entries and a career profile of the 18th-century pirate Hajji Husein Pasha. Each covers its topic in clea...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gr 10 Up—As Mikaberidze indicates in the preface, it is impossible to cover all aspects of Islamic military and political history in two volumes. However, he and numerous contributors have accomplished a major feat with this set in which selective reading provides a great deal of understanding of the situations in the Islamic world today. The signed, alphabetically arranged en...Log In or Sign Up to Read More