A thrilling account of the rise of Islam, from the bestselling author of }Rubicon{ and }Persian Fire{. \'A stunning blockbuster\' Robert Fisk, }Independent{.
Holland explores how a succession of great empires came to identify themselves with a new understanding of the divine.
Today, over half the world\'s population subscribes to one of the various religions that took on something like their final form during the last centuries of antiquity.
A thrilling account of the rise of Islam, from the bestselling author of }Rubicon{ and }Persian Fire{