Assyrians: From Beder Khan to Saddam Hussein Second Edition

Frederick A.Aprim After the establishment of Islam as a state religion in the Fertile Crescent by the eighth century, the ferocious attacks by the Timurids, plundering the region as they descended from Central Asia in the fourteenth century, drove many Christian Aramaic speakers who did not convert to Islam into the mountains of Taurus, Hakkari, and the Zagros for shelter. Other remained in their ancestral villages on the Mosul (Nineveh) Plain only to face heavy pressure to assimilate into Arab culture. Author: Frederick A.Aprim Publisher: Frederick A.Aprim Language: English Published: 2006 Pages:408 Cover: Soft cover Dimensions:229x 151x 21 mm ISBN: 0-9771873-1-4