What Life Was Like in the Lands of the Prophet: Islamic World, Ad 570-1405

by Denise Dersin

Drawing on art, artifacts and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0783554656
• ISBN13: 9780783554655
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Time Life Medical
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Easy and Fun

Doing research for a historical novel, and tiring of very long analyses with tiny print, I picked this one up at the library and immediately lost myself. It's great. Not quite detailed enough to be a serious reference, but the excellent bibliography will point you in the right direction. Tons of gorgeous pictures give the feel of the period, and a lengthy section (towards the end) paints the daily life of the famous Ibn Khaldun, whose writings are tapped as the primary source for that section. If you are looking for a good introduction to the mindset, daily life and framework of a certain period in history, I can think of no better starting point than these books.