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Islamic Empires: The Cities that Shaped Civilization: From Mecca to Dubai
Maybe someday
28
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Readers
50/100Critics
7/100Scholars
Author:
Justin Marozzi
Publisher:
Pegasus Books
Date:
February 4, 2020
A British scholar and journalist journeys through a complicated history of Islam via the major Muslim cities throughout the ages, from Mecca to Constantinople to Doha.
What The Reviewers Say
...excellent, authoritative and illuminating.
The concept is dramatic, an epic in 15 acts. But with its fine drawing and mass of minute detail, reading the book is more like poring over the framed miniatures in a manuscript: here a Moghul lolls by a pool, there a Timurid rampages across the page.
This is an accessible, popular history to introduce readers to the kaleidoscopic sweep of 16 centuries of Islamic history.
Marozzi does not dispute [the] excoriating charge sheet against contemporary Arab regimes. What he does provide is a compelling counterpoint to the present state of affairs by recalling the pluralism, cosmopolitanism and magnificent achievements of the Islamic empires of the past.
