Ep 181: Michael Cook on the Islamic Conquests
Michael Cook, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and author of A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity, joins the show to discuss the sudden, explosive Arab expansion of the 7th century.
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Show Notes
Michael Cook, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and author of A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity, joins the show to discuss the sudden, explosive Arab expansion of the 7th century.
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Times
• 01:46 Introduction
• 03:05 Sources
• 04:42 War and politics
• 07:32 Grass and sand
• 09:30 Self-defense
• 12:21 Ibn Khaldun
• 16:11 An Arab identity
• 18:45 Knock on effects
• 26:40 Two targets
• 28:32 The Arab way of war
• 34:50 Coming out of the desert
• 38:48 Civil war
• 42:27 Jihad
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