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By John Robertson
In this insightful research, highly-respected specialist John Robertson canvases everything of Iraq’s wealthy heritage, from the seminal advances of its Neolithic population to the aftermath of the American-led invasion and Iraq at the present time. Grounded in wide examine, this balanced account of a rustic and its humans explores the greatness and grandeur of Iraq’s achievements, the brutality and style of its historical empires, its contributions to the emergence of the world’s enduring monotheistic faiths, and the position the nice Arab caliphs of Baghdad performed within the medieval cultural flowering that contributed a lot to the eu Renaissance and the eventual upward push of the West.
Fascinating and thought-provoking, Robertson’s paintings sheds mild on a outstanding tale of worldwide background, one who has been too frequently neglected. Wide-ranging and broad in technique, it's bound to be tremendously preferred through historians, scholars and all people with an curiosity during this varied and enigmatic country.
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2. Religion and Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 69. 26. , p. 70. 27. Kennedy, When Baghdad Ruled, pp. 152–155. 28. ), The Arabian Nights (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990); Robert Irwin, The Arabian Nights: A Companion (London: Penguin, 1994), p. 2. 29. Jonathan Lyons, The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009), p. 61. 30. Irwin, Arabian Nights, pp. 122–124. 31. See Philip F. Kennedy, Abu Nuwas: A Genius of Poetry (Oxford: Oneworld, 2005).
P. 25. 37 14. In Egypt, the seventh-century Arab conquerors established a camp city, al-Fustat (city of “the tent”), in the environs of the ancient pharaonic capital at Memphis, near the apex of the Nile delta. Al-Fustat became the nucleus of the city of Cairo (al-Qahira, “the Victorious”), which was founded three centuries later. 15. McGuire Gibson, “Nippur and Archaeology in Iraq,” in Oriental Institute 2004–2005 Annual Report, pp. 82–87. 16. Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates, p.