Download or read book The Islamic World in Ascendancy written by Martin Sicker and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sicker examines the thousand-year ascendancy of Islam from the Arab conquests to the zenith of Ottoman expansionism under Suleiman the Magnificent. He provides a unique perspective on that history that gives full account of the role played by religion as an instrument of geopolitics by both the Muslim and Christian worlds, as jihad and crusade.