@inbook{dd536e2fc0334a7289c9918700dc451b,
title = "Features of the Pre-Conquest Muslim Army in the Time of Muḥammad",
abstract = "THE PERIOD OF pre-conquest Muslim warfare spanned only eleven years, i.e. the time of the Prophet{\textquoteright}s stay in Medina and the so-called apostasy (ridda) wars (A.D. 622-33). But it was during this short period that the framework for the subsequent Arab conquests was established. In their attempts to account for this expansion, western scholars generally accept the thesis that in the seventh century, both the Byzantine and the Sasanian empires were declining due to constant wars against each other, and their respective internal difficulties. The Arab conquests were made possible by the opponents{\textquoteright} weaknesses rather than by the power of",
author = "Ella Landau-Tasseron",
note = "Published as an ebook in 2021 by Gerlach Press in Berlin. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1b9f5rq.12",
year = "1996",
language = "אנגלית",
isbn = "3959940882",
volume = "3",
series = " Studies in late antiquity and early Islam ",
publisher = "Darwin Press",
pages = "299--336",
editor = "Cameron, \{Averil \}",
booktitle = "The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East",
}