The Arab Conquests, 622-750

(History 398R-1) Summer 2005, MWF 1-3; 275 MARB

 

 

1.  Introduction 1

      Syllabus

      Schedule

      Reference Bibliography

 

 

2. Introduction 2

      Premodern Warfare

      Ethnography and Geography

 

 

3. Byzantine Empire

      Byzantine Bibliography

      Byzantine Military System

      Byzantine Military Chronology

 

 

4. Sasanid Empire

      Sasanid Military System

      Sasanid Military Chronology

 

 

5. The “Great War”

      Chronology

      Siege of Constantinople

 

 

6. The Jahiliya

      Jahiliya Arabia

      Pre-Islamic military chronology

      Overview of the Arab Conquests

 

 

7. Muhammad

      Life of Muhammad

      Muhammad military chronology

      The Qur’an

      Three Battles: Badr, Uhud, the Trench

 

 

8. The Ridda Wars

      Jihad and Warfare in the Qur’an

      The Ridda campaigns

 

 

9. Palestine, Syria

      Battle of Yarmuk

 

 

10. Iraq

      Sasanid Kings

      Conquest of Iraq

      Battle of Qadisiya

 

 

11. Egypt and NW Africa

      Egypt

      NW Africa

      Ethiopia

 

 

12. Persia and Nihavand

 

 

13. Naval Warfare

 

14. Uthman

      First Arab Civil War

 

15. Early Umayyads

 

16. Second Arab Civil War

 

17. Armenia

      Khazars

 

18. Central Asians

 

19. North Africa

 

20. Western European military

      Spain and France

 

21. Indian military systems

      Age of Harsha

      Arab invasions of the Indus Valley (Sind)

 

22. Tang Chinese

      Arab Conquest of Central Asia

 

23. Siegecraft

      Anatolia and Constantinople

 

24. Abbasid Revolution

 

25. End of Jihad