Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion<br><br>Fox this book so far as its purpose is concerned perhaps no apology is needed. It aims at con structing a history at once broad and detailed of the Saracen conquest of Egypt. No such history has yet been written although scattered essays on the subject may be found from Gibbon onwards brief sketches or chapters in some wider treatise upon the Roman or the Arab empire. Indeed the fact that no serious and minute study upon the conquest exists in any language is not a. Little remarkable: but it has been mainly due to two causes - the. Scantiness of the material accessible to'' ordinary students and the total want of agreement among the authorities familiar or unfamiliar eastern or western.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.