title: In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire (Ancient Warfare and Civilization)
author:  Robert G. Hoyland 
description: <br>"[A] splendid new history of the Arab conquests.... Hoyland...has performed an invaluable service. His book will surely serve as the definitive account of the Arab conquests for many years to come." -Tom Holland, <em>Literary Review</em>
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  _Also by Tom Holland_
  
  
  Nonfiction
  
  
  RUBICON
  
  
  The Last Years of the Roman Republic
  
  
  PERSIAN FIRE
  
  
  The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
  
  
  THE FORGE OF CHRISTENDOM
  
  
  The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West
  
  
  IN THE SHADOW OF THE SWORD
  
  
  The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
  
  
  Fiction
  
  
  ATTIS
  
  
  DELIVER US FROM EVIL
  
  
  THE SLEEPER IN THE SANDS
  
  
  THE BONEHUNTER
  
  
  Translations
  
  
  The Histories by Herodotus
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © 2015 by Tom Holland
  
  
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division
  of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in hardcover in
  Great Britain by Little, Brown, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, a
  Hachette UK 