I still have no time to write the review... Nuts. Too much upheaval change at work. Should get to the review sometime this weekend.
Anyway, here's another NOD:
Enough has already been said about the religious motivation of the invaders, the power of the idea of martyrdom and paradise as incentives in battle. This was combined with the traditional, pre-Islamic ideals of loyalty to tribe and kin, and admiration of the lone warrior hero. The mixture of the cultural values of the nomad society with the ideology of the new religion was formidable.
