The Great Arab Conquests: How The Spread Of Isl... -

: The Umayyad Dynasty (661–750 CE) implemented a broad program of Arabization, making Arabic the official language of administration and creating a unified currency.

Within just one hundred years following the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 CE, Arab armies established an empire stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the borders of China and India in the east. The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Isl...

: The conquests effectively dismantled the 1,000-year-old Sasanian Persian Empire and reduced the Byzantine Empire to a remnant state centered around Constantinople. : The Umayyad Dynasty (661–750 CE) implemented a

Unlike many nomadic invasions, the Arab conquests were followed by a lasting cultural and linguistic integration that defines the modern Middle East and North Africa. Unlike many nomadic invasions, the Arab conquests were

: By the mid-eighth century, the caliphates controlled roughly 13 million square kilometers, including the Iberian Peninsula (Spain), North Africa, the Levant, and Central Asia.