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Islamic Military Leadership and the Making of Empires

by Gew Social Sciences , Hichem Karoui
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781787956230
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Global East-West (London)
  • Publisher Imprint: Global East-West (London)
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  • Pages: 146
  • Original Price: GBP 37.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 205 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Islamic

Islamic Military Leadership and the Making of Empires offers a comprehensive, course-friendly synthesis of Islamic military and imperial history from the seventh to the seventeenth century. The volume centers on a transparent evaluative rubric-victory, consolidation, institutions, legitimacy, adaptability-then tests it across case studies from Arabia to Iberia, Transoxiana to Istanbul.

Part I reframes "greatness," weighing conquest against conversion, logistics, intelligence, and law. Parts II-IV track operational mobility and early state survival (Khālid ibn al-Walīd; Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ; ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ), Umayyad frontier systems and coalition warfare (Mūsā ibn Nuṣayr; Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād; Qutaybah ibn Muslim), and regional reinvention (Seljuk steppe cavalry with Persian administration; Almoravid/Almohad reform; Ghaznavid/Ghurid campaigns). Part V covers Crusades and counter-Crusades-Zangid unification, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn's coalition strategy and decisive campaigning, Baybars' fortress network, raids, and diplomacy-before Part VI on gunpowder leadership analyzes the Ottoman war-state (Janissaries, depots, siegecraft), Mehmed II's imperial refounding at Constantinople, and Suleiman's territorial governance. The final Synthesis separates legend from reality and assesses the human, cultural, and economic costs of empire, with robust references for further reading.

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  • Audience: general readers, undergraduates, library patrons; useful for courses in Islamic history, military history, Middle Eastern studies, and leadership/strategy.
  • Features: accessible structure; case-study pedagogy; cross-regional integration; extensive bibliographic pointers.

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