L'vy i rozy islama. Istorich. puteshestvie ot Mekki - Sokolov V.

Vladimir Sokolov's book is a popular story about the era of early Islam with its extraordinary personalities, fabulous luxury and dramatic events that accompanied the rise and fall of the Arab Caliphate. It is full of colorful details of everyday life of the Muslim Middle Ages, among which there was a place for the arrangement of dwellings, craft pursuits, ways of understanding knowledge, culinary recipes and rules of visiting baths. Here, the portraits of caliphs, emirs and raised eunuchs, information about court etiquette, descriptions of harem intrigues, palace feasts and much, much more, are sketched in broad strokes. It tells about the precepts of Sharia and pays much attention to the fundamental beginnings of Islam - the Koran, Sunnam and Fiqhu. The book is based on the original Arab-Persian chronicles and works of prominent orientalists of old and new time.

Vladimir Sokolov is a historian, writer and author of the "The Amusing History of the Ancient Church" (2015, 2016), published by Lomonosov.