The expansion of the early Islamic state / edited by Fred M. Donner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The art of war of the Arabs and the supposed religious fervour of the Arab conquerors / Leone Caetani -- Some critical and sociological remarks on the Arab conquest and the theories proposed on this / G.H. Bousquet -- Observations on the nature and causes of the Arab conquest / G.H. Bousquet -- The nomad as empire builder: a comparison of the Arab and Mongol conquests / John J. Saunders -- The Arab expansion: the military problem / Marius Canard -- The first expansion of Islam: factors of thrust and containment / Gustave E. von Grunebaum -- The conquest / Christian Décobert -- Another orientalist's remarks concerning the Pirenne thesis / Andrew S. Ehrenkreutz -- Initial Byzantine reaction to the Arab conquest / Walter E. Kaegi -- Only a change of masters?: the Christians of Iran and the Muslim conquest / Stephen Gerö -- An apocalyptic vision of Islamic history / Bernard Lewis -- The legendary futūh ̣literature / Rudi Paret -- On the relationship in the Caliphate between central power and the provinces: the "Sụlh"̣-"ʻAnwa" for Egypt and Iraq / Albrecht Noth -- Ibn Abdelhạkam and the conquest of North Africa / Robert Brunschvig -- The birth of Islam in the Holy Land / Moshe Sharon -- Isf̣ahān-Nihāwand: a source-critical study of early Islamic historiography / Albrecht Noth -- Centralized authority and military autonomy in the early Islamic conquests / Fred McGraw Donner -- The conquest of Khūzistān: a historiographical reassessment / Chase F. Robinson -- Syriac views of emergent Islam / S.P. Brock. Brock.