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The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In

Hugh Kennedy's narrative history of the early Arab conquests, from the first campaigns out of Arabia through the establishment of Umayyad rule across the Near East and North Africa into Iberia. Kennedy is a professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London, and the book works from the same documented chronicle tradition as his other narrative history in this catalog on the Islamic Near East, extended here to the conquest of Iberia specifically. Use it for the established sequence and dating of the Umayyad conquest of the Iberian peninsula; a claim about later Andalusi cultural or intellectual history needs a dedicated source instead.

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Assessment
Reliability Tier
1
A named academic historian's monograph from a mainstream trade press, working directly from the documented Arabic chronicle tradition; tier 1.
Notes
Used for the Umayyad conquest of Iberia, 711 to 718.
Citation
Author
Hugh Kennedy
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Publication Year
2007
Source Type
academic monograph
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Africa, Continents

This source names Africa directly: "rule across the Near East and North Africa into Iberia."

Source The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live InHugh Kennedy
Arabs, Cultures

This source names Arabs directly: "Hugh Kennedy's narrative history of the early Arab conquests, from the first campaigns out of Arabia through the establishment of Umayyad rule across the Near East and North Africa into Iberia."

Source The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live InHugh Kennedy
London, Cities

This source names London directly: "Kennedy is a professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London, and the book works from the same documented chronicle tradition as his other narrative history in this catalog on the Islamic Near..."

Source The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live InHugh Kennedy
Claims Backed By This Source (238 claims)

This source backs 238 claims across the atlas. As facts: 148 well-attested. As cited relationships: 46 holds, 18 connected. Plus 26 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Articles, 90 claims: 64 well-attested, 13 connected, 13 general references.
  • Wars & Conflicts, 88 claims: 37 well-attested, 40 holds, 5 connected, 6 general references.
  • Open Questions, 42 claims: 36 well-attested, 6 general references.
  • Sources, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 3 holds.
  • Spread Events, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.

Well-attested

148

Articles

A Coptic Church Estranged From Constantinople, and a Debated WelcomeA Slow Conversion That Made the Berbers Partners in ConquestAl-Qadisiyyah, Nahavand and the Fall of the Sasanian EmpireAmr ibn al-As and the Fall of Byzantine AlexandriaApostasy, Zakat and the Question of What the Ridda Wars Were AboutDisputed Succession, a Jewish Minority, and a Debated WelcomeGuadalete and the Sudden Collapse of Visigothic SpainHow Tariq ibn Ziyad's Crossing Brought Islam to IberiaKairouan, al-Kahina's Resistance, and Decades to Conquer the MaghrebKhalid ibn al-Walid's Campaigns Against the Rebel TribesThe Battle of Yarmouk and the Fall of Byzantine SyriaThe End of a Zoroastrian Empire, and a Conversion That Took CenturiesUmar's Visit to Jerusalem and a Precedent for Ruling Other Faiths

Open Questions

What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Egypt?What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Iberia?What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of North Africa?What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Persia?What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of the Levant?What Was the Total Death Toll of the Ridda Wars?

Sources

The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In

Spread Events

Islam Reaches Iberia

Wars & Conflicts

Muslim Conquest of EgyptMuslim Conquest of IberiaMuslim Conquest of North AfricaMuslim Conquest of PersiaMuslim Conquest of the LevantRidda Wars

Holds

46

Sources

The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In

Spread Events

Islam Reaches Iberia

Wars & Conflicts

Muslim Conquest of EgyptMuslim Conquest of IberiaMuslim Conquest of North AfricaMuslim Conquest of PersiaMuslim Conquest of the LevantRidda Wars

Connected

18

Articles

A Coptic Church Estranged From Constantinople, and a Debated WelcomeA Slow Conversion That Made the Berbers Partners in ConquestAl-Qadisiyyah, Nahavand and the Fall of the Sasanian EmpireAmr ibn al-As and the Fall of Byzantine AlexandriaApostasy, Zakat and the Question of What the Ridda Wars Were AboutDisputed Succession, a Jewish Minority, and a Debated WelcomeGuadalete and the Sudden Collapse of Visigothic SpainHow Tariq ibn Ziyad's Crossing Brought Islam to IberiaKairouan, al-Kahina's Resistance, and Decades to Conquer the MaghrebKhalid ibn al-Walid's Campaigns Against the Rebel TribesThe Battle of Yarmouk and the Fall of Byzantine SyriaThe End of a Zoroastrian Empire, and a Conversion That Took CenturiesUmar's Visit to Jerusalem and a Precedent for Ruling Other Faiths

Wars & Conflicts

Muslim Conquest of EgyptMuslim Conquest of IberiaMuslim Conquest of North AfricaMuslim Conquest of PersiaMuslim Conquest of the Levant

General References

26

Articles

A Coptic Church Estranged From Constantinople, and a Debated WelcomeA Slow Conversion That Made the Berbers Partners in ConquestAl-Qadisiyyah, Nahavand and the Fall of the Sasanian EmpireAmr ibn al-As and the Fall of Byzantine AlexandriaApostasy, Zakat and the Question of What the Ridda Wars Were AboutDisputed Succession, a Jewish Minority, and a Debated WelcomeGuadalete and the Sudden Collapse of Visigothic SpainHow Tariq ibn Ziyad's Crossing Brought Islam to IberiaKairouan, al-Kahina's Resistance, and Decades to Conquer the MaghrebKhalid ibn al-Walid's Campaigns Against the Rebel TribesThe Battle of Yarmouk and the Fall of Byzantine SyriaThe End of a Zoroastrian Empire, and a Conversion That Took CenturiesUmar's Visit to Jerusalem and a Precedent for Ruling Other Faiths

Open Questions

What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Egypt?What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Iberia?What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of North Africa?What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of Persia?What Was the Total Death Toll of the Muslim Conquest of the Levant?What Was the Total Death Toll of the Ridda Wars?

Spread Events

Islam Reaches Iberia

Wars & Conflicts

Muslim Conquest of EgyptMuslim Conquest of IberiaMuslim Conquest of North AfricaMuslim Conquest of PersiaMuslim Conquest of the LevantRidda Wars
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