The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire VI

This volume turns from the Greek empire to the rise of Islam and the Arab conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries. Gibbon recounts the life of Mohammed, the first caliphs, and the fall of Roman Syria, Egypt, and North Africa, together with the pressure those losses placed on Constantinople. He also treats the Iconoclast controversy and the changed map of the Mediterranean. The book is a narrative of religion and empire in collision, not a Quranic commentary and not a full history of the early caliphate for its own sake.

Bound in dark red buckram blocked with gilt decoration. Cream slipcase.