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This book is an attempt at a reconstruction of complex relations between Byzantium and the Arabs from the sixth to the eighth century. It discusses the religious and political situation in the Middle East on the eve of the Arab conquest, characterises the attitude adopted by the inhabitants of Byzantine provinces toward the Arab invaders, analyses the administrative structures of Byzantium and the...

The book is about history, but not the one that is written in dry letters in the textbook, but the one into which the time machine takes you and lets you live the days, months in the body of another person, a contemporary of the time you are reading about. It is about religion, but not about what they preach in churches, without the right to question, but about its origins, causes, development, problems,...

O książce: To znakomite studium dziejów dawnej Afryki. Wychodząc od pojedynczych znalezisk archeologicznych - jak słynny złoty nosorożec z Mapungubwe, krótkich wzmianek w relacjach Europejczyków, Arabów i Chińczyków czy też ustnych przekazów - autor rekonstruuje barwne krainy Afryki, która nie znajdowała się na peryferiach ówczesnego świata, a wręcz przeciwnie - na nią skierowana była niejednokrotnie...