Description:In
less than fifty years, the Bedouins of Arabia established the greatest
empire in the world of their day and one of the greatest in history.
These years, from 630-680, not only transformed a whole vast region, but
ensured that the pattern of life in the Middle East would never be the
same again. Muhammed and his immediate successors decided the framework
of many things for thirteen hundred years. In this vivid book, Arabic
scholar John "Pasha" Glubb chronicles the short period of time in which
the Bedouin Empire developed, highlighting the simplicity of its
administration and the many victories achieved through sheer zeal and
courage by relatively untrained and unorganized armies.