Islamicate Environments: Water, Land, Plants, and Society

by D. Fairchild Ruggles

Islam burst forth from Arabia in the seventh century and spread with astonishing speed and force into the Middle East, Asia and northern Africa and the Mediterranean. While its success as a dominant culture has often been attributed to military strength, astute political organization, and religious factors, this Element focuses on the environmental conditions from which early Islamic societies sprang. In the belt of arid land that stretches from Iran...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009483404
• ISBN13: 9781009483407
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages