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Jiang explicitly states his thesis that the Muslims were the world's first global revolution.
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The central historical puzzle is how poor desert nomads defeated the Byzantine and Sassanian empires and conquered territory from Spain to India in less than a century.
Jiang explicitly states his thesis that the Muslims were the world's first global revolution.
He says the Muslim movement succeeded because it fused revolutionary zeal against the social order with religious devotion that God was with them.
"the here's the roman empire as well as the sassanian persian empire and they both attack him sorry they both attack the muslims but..."
"you can say it was a religious movement but they were both revolutions there they were trying to overthrow the established social order okay..."
"Okay? I have come to you as God's messenger, as God's prophet, to tell you that this land is yours and you must take..."
"You are now allowed to practice any faith you want. You have that freedom now. That's important to people. You now have some land..."
"...be? It seems like this massive expansion, like the Bronze Age, Muslim conquest, and implosions like the Bronze Age collapse and the French Revolution..."
"...of the qing dynasty so a very similar situation with the muslim conquest of the world right these are peasants who have this very..."
A source-grounded reading of Islam's rise as Jiang's first global revolution: a thin archive, a Moses-like prophet, a desert mistaken for backwardness, and a movement that fused religious devotion with revolt against debt, landlessness,...
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