TY  - BOOK
AU  - KARSH Efraim
TI  - Islamic imperialism: a history
SN  - 0300122632 (pbk) :
PY  - 2007///
CY  - 
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - IMPERIALISM
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - ISLAM
N2  - Chronological account of the expansions and contractions of Islamic empires which also critically assesses the various explanations for these evolutions noting how the 'perennial tension between center and periphery' (Hisham Sharabi) prevented any prolonged period of Arab unity since the eighth century CE
ER  -