أسباب سرعة الفتح العربي

أسباب سرعة الفتح العربي

Arslan surveys European explanations for how fast the Arab conquests moved: the warlike character of the Arabs, the Bedouin love of raiding and plunder, and the weariness of subject peoples with their rulers. He finds these insufficient and argues that the decisive force was moral: the Qur'an, its memorisation and the authority of its readers, together with a social and political order he says was fairer than the despotic governments it replaced. He notes the battles of Yarmuk, al-Qadisiyya and Nahavand and the reach of the state beyond the Oxus. This is the author's own explanation, and other historians disagree.