The Muslim Conquest of Egypt and North Africa

The Muslim Conquest of Egypt and North Africa is a volume in A.I. Akram's Islamic Military History Series, republished by Maktabah Book Sellers & Publishers with edited footnotes, anglicized terminology, and redrawn maps. It chronicles the seventh-century expansion of Muslim rule westward from Arabia into Egypt and across North Africa, at a time when the Byzantine and Persian empires had exhausted themselves fighting each other. The narrative follows commanders Amr ibn al-Aas, who led the siege of the Roman fortress of Babylon in Egypt, and Uqba ibn Nafi, who founded the garrison city of Kairouan and pushed Muslim control toward the Atlantic coast. Written in an accessible narrative style with a military analyst's attention to strategy and terrain, the book suits readers of early Islamic history and the Rashidun and Umayyad-era conquests.