In the Shadow of the Sword Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Tom Holland
SCORE
3.5
TOTAL RATINGS
156

In the Shadow of the Sword by Tom Holland Book Summary

The acclaimed author of Rubicon and other superb works of popular history now produces a thrillingly panoramic (and incredibly timely) account of the rise of Islam.
 
No less significant than the collapse of the Roman Republic or the Persian invasion of Greece, the evolution of the Arab empire is one of the supreme narratives of ancient history, a story dazzlingly rich in drama, character, and achievement.  Just like the Romans, the Arabs came from nowhere to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion—except that they achieved their conquests not over the course of centuries as the Romans did but in a matter of decades. Just like the Greeks during the Persian wars, they overcame seemingly insuperable odds to emerge triumphant against the greatest empire of the day—not by standing on the defensive, however, but by hurling themselves against all who lay in their path.

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Book Name In the Shadow of the Sword
Genre Islam
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 30.76 MB

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Rancid, racist history. I have never read such a rancid, acidic reading of history such as is found in this book. Mr. Holland distorts, overwrites, and simply skims over anything that lends any credence to the Islamo-Arab Empire as one of humanity's great civilizations. No reforms of the economy are to be found here, no scientific and technological achievements by Islamic scientists. Nothing. Islam in this book is iconoclastically defaced, and erased from human history. Pay no attention to the Arabs, those savages!

Excellent history. Some people might not like the historical perspective but it is an objective account.

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Summary of In the Shadow of the Sword by Tom Holland

The In the Shadow of the Sword book written by Tom Holland was published on 15 May 2012, Tuesday in the Islam category. A total of 156 readers of the book gave the book 3.5 points out of 5.

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