ISLAM UNDER THE ARABS - HARDCOVER

About the Book:- It constitutes a whole in itself and is the first of a series of works which will trace the progress of Islam from Mekka to Delhi. The second work will be entitled ‘The Khalifs of Baghdad,’ and the third, ‘Islam in India.” The period of Muhammadan history which extends from the first preaching of Muhammad to the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols, falls naturally into three divisions: The rule of the Arabs; The rule of the Persians; The rule of the Turks. The present volume deals with the first of these. This period terminated in A. H. 132 with the overthrow of the House of Ommaya and the accession to power of the Khalifs of the House of Abbas. About the Author:- Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Durie Osborn (1835–1889) was a British army officer. Osborn was born at Agra, India, on 6 Aug. 1835. His father, Henry Roche Osborn, entered the British East India Company's service in May 1819, and served most of his time in the 54th Native Infantry, but later was lieutenant-colonel of the 13th Native Infantry; he died at Ferozepore in 1849. Robert was educated as a cadet at Dr. Greig's school at Walthamstow, and was appointed ensign of the 26th Bengal Native Infantry 16 Aug. 1854, becoming lieutenant on 31 July 1857. He served throughout the Indian Mutiny campaign of 1857–1859, and was present in the actions of Boolundshuhur on 27 Sept., and of Allyghur on 5 Oct. 1857. Osborn was a serious thinker on both religious and political topics. As a young man he enjoyed the friendship of F. D. Maurice and of Charles Kingsley, and occasionally wrote papers in the magazines on Maurice's religious position and influence. While in India, he was a conscientious student of Eastern religions, and spent fourteen years in studying materials for his two works, Islam under the Arabs, 1876, and Islam under the Khalifs of Baghdad, 1877; 2nd ed. 1880