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Michael Cook, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and author of A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity, joins the show to discuss the sudden, explosive Arab expansion of the 7th century.

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Times

• 01:46 Introduction

• 03:05 Sources

• 04:42 War and politics

• 07:32 Grass and sand

• 09:30 Self-defense

• 12:21 Ibn Khaldun

• 16:11 An Arab identity

• 18:45 Knock on effects

• 26:40 Two targets

• 28:32 The Arab way of war

• 34:50 Coming out of the desert

• 38:48 Civil war

• 42:27 Jihad

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