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How did Islam expand so fast?
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How did Islam expand so fast?

From a desert peninsula to Spain and India in a single century — the fastest empire-building in history, and the cosmopolitan civilization it left behind.

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No empire in history grew faster. Within a hundred years of the Prophet’s death, the caliphs ruled from the Atlantic to the Indus — and built, almost as an afterthought, a civilization.

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From a desert peninsula to Spain and India in a single century — the fastest empire-building in history, and the cosmopolitan civilization it left behind.…

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