Were the Muslim Arab Conquerors of the Seventh-Century Middle East Colonialists?, by Robert Hoyland – 17 April 2021

Robert Hoyland is Professor of Late Antique and Early Islamic Middle Eastern History at New York University, NY, USA.

This article first appeared in Comparativ Vol. 30 No. 3/4.

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