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The Middle East since the Rise of Islam
: Historiographical Overview and the Sasanian and Byzantine Empires in the Middle East
Editor in Chief:
Camron Amin, University of Michigan–Dearborn
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1. Historiographical Overview and the Sasanian and Byzantine Empires in the Middle East
2. Pre-Islamic Arabia
3. Career of the Prophet
4. Era of the “Rightly Guided Caliphs”
5. The Umayyads, the Shiʿa, and the Kharijites
6. The ʿAbbasid Period to 1258
7. The Mongols and the Middle East
8. The Gunpowder Empires
9. Relations with the Wider Islamic World
10. The Rise of European Imperialism
11. World War I through World War II
12. The Middle East during the Cold War
13. From the Gulf War to the Iraq War
14. The Arab Spring and Beyond
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Additional Docs
Zend Avesta (ca. 141 BCE–224 CE)
Kirdir: Sasanian Priestly Inscription (ca. 300)
Nicene Creed (325)
Book of the Cave of Treasures (ca. 500–600)
Gospel of Thomas (ca. 50–180)
Mani: Evangelium (ca. 240–270)
Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire (311 and 313)
Code of Justinian (534)
Key Arguments: The Middle East since the Rise of Islam, Unit 1
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