Bøker av Shibli Numani

Vividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli- Nu'ma-ni- (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian, Nu'ma-ni- took a six-month leave from teaching to travel to the Ottoman Empire in search of rare printed works and manuscripts.

During Umar's reign an empire was built that defines the cultural and geographical heartlands of the Islamic world. This account - abridged for the non-specialist - links the conquests with reforms in law, government, and administration, and Umar's efforts to embody the ethos of Islam.