The Caliph's Splendor: Islam and the West in the Golden Age of Baghdad

by Benson Bobrick

Book Overview

The story of Harun al-Rashid, the celebrated caliph from The Thousand and One Nights , who ruled the Islamic world when its power was at a peak in the late eighth and early ninth centuries and when the Arab world influenced Western Christian culture. The Caliph's Splendor is a revelation: a history of a civilization we barely know that had a profound effect on our own culture. While the West declined following the collapse of the Roman Empire, a new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416567623
• ISBN13: 9781416567622
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.4"