Summary of the history of Iraq

In A Brief History of Iraq, Anastas Marie Al-Karmali offers an intensive journey across thousands of years in the land of the first civilizations, from Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria, through the Chaldeans, Greeks, Romans, and Sassanids, all the way to the Islamic era when Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasids, flourished. The author skillfully narrates the strengths and weaknesses of the caliphate's ...