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Description of  Empire of the Islamic World (Great Empires of the Past)

This well-written reference resource explores the Islamic Empire's society, culture, and daily life, including architecture and art astronomy and mathematics customs, holidays, sports, and foods government systems industry and trade language and literature military structure and strategy and mythology and religious beliefs. While Islam, the world's second-largest religion, is the most obvious legacy of the Islamic Empire, the political and scientific contributions are equally formidable. Islamic Empire addresses these and other important connections to our modern world.