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This is a superb work of erudition and I loved it but had just two small problems with it:
1. The style of the writing, others spoke about it, maybe I prefer something slightly more academic.
2. The total acceptation of the islamic orthodox view of the history of Islam and Muhamad. Not a word about the critical works onthese issues, even to refute them, tradition is taken at face value or only criticized if it had been criticized by traditional muslim commentators. And the reverence toward the Quran was also too much. Someone writing like that about the Bible and it’s history would be slammed as an extreme conservative.
But that’s relatively marginal over all. Great book.

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Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires