Tactics used in Arab Conquests of the Islamic Empire

Professor Robert G. Hoyland discusses the various tactics used by the Arabs to create an Islamic Empire in just over a hundred years – from the death of Muhammad in 632 AD to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750 AD. god’s path&lang=en&cc=us Professor of Late Antique and Early Islamic Middle Eastern History at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Robert G. Hoyland is the author of In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire (Oxford, 2014). © Oxford University Press