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In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire, by Tom Holland

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Foul-smelling though the ascetics of Syria notoriously were, yet in the air that had once been breathed by Simeon there hung, so many Christians believed, a lingering perfume-trace of paradise.
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In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
by Tom Holland
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