The Arab conquests in Central Asia

by H. A. R. (Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen) Gibb

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Transcriber’s Note: This text makes use of an uncommon system for transcription of Arabic. Italics, sometimes on a s ingle le t ter (highlighted in red here, but not in the text!), are semantically meaningful; and you’ll need a font that can display macrons (āēīōū) and the characters for the transliterations of Arabic letters ain (ʿ) and hamza (ʾ).

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"The first draft of this work was presented to the University of London ... 1921, under the title of The Arab conquest of Transoxania, as a thesis for the degree of master of arts."

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2020-04-08

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Public domain in the USA.

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61791

Subjects

Islamic Empire Bukhoro (Uzbekistan) -- History Khanate of Bukhara -- History DK

About the author

H. A. R. (Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen) Gibb

1895–1971

A leading Scottish scholar of Islam and the Arab world, he helped shape modern Islamic and Middle Eastern studies in Britain and the United States. His work brought together history, literature, religion, and travel writing in a way that still feels broad-minded and curious.

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