#1154 Michael Cook: A History of the Muslim World (Part 2)
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lops, and today I'm joined again by Dr. Michael Cook. He is Fles of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, and this is the second part of our conversation about his book, A History of the Muslim World. from its origins to the dawn of modernity.
So Dr. Cook, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to have you one. Glad to be back. Okay, so let's start from where we left off last time we were starting to talk about the caliphate.
How did the caliphate expand to Spain in the west and to Sindh in the east? Right. I think by way of background, let me remind you that by the early 8th century the Caliphate is the only imperial game in town. I mean, you won't find another empire anywhere west of China. So it doesn't have formidable enemies.
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