- Author Name : Firas Alkhateeb
- Subject : Islamic, History
- Language : English
- Cover : Paper Back
- No of Pages : 274
- Publish Year : 2014
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social, and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France, to East Africa to South East Asia.