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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Heraclius, Herman of Carinthia, Robert of Ketton, Dwight York, Abul Ala Maududi, Tahir-ul-Qadri, Muhammad Asad, Edip Yuksel, Shah Waliullah, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, Maulana Mohammad Ali, Amin Ahsan Islahi, Salman the Persian, Sh mei kawa, Alexander Ross, Edward Henry Palmer, Muhammad Hamidullah, Syed Ali Abbas Jalalpuri, Marmaduke Pickthall, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, George Sale, Wahiduddin Khan, Laleh Bakhtiar, Ahmed Ali, Thomas Cleary, Hashim Amir Ali, Allama Muhammad Idrees Dahiri, Muhammad Abdel-Haleem, Tahereh Saffarzadeh, Muhammad Habib Shakir, Presidency of Religious Affairs, Muhammad Muhsin Khan, Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali, Muztar Abbasi, Maulana Abdul Karim Parekh, Arthur John Arberry, Theodore Bibliander, Toshihiko Izutsu, Haljand Udam, Abd Al-Aziz Fawzan Al-Fawzan, Ali Unal, Muhammad Ma Jian, Jozef Bielawski, Abdul Majid Daryabadi, Solomana Kante, N. J. Dawood, Mohammed Knut Bernstrom, Louis Maracci, Rene R. Khawam, Karl Vilhelm Zettersteen, Richard Bell, Hamza Roberto Piccardo, John Medows Rodwell, Allama Ali Khan Abro, Mark of Toledo, Musa Bigiev, Andre du Ryer, Claude-Etienne Savary. Excerpt: Heraclius (Latin: , Greek: , c. 575 - February 11, 641) was Byzantine Emperor from 610 to 641. He was responsible for abandoning the use of Latin in favor of the Ancient Greek language in official documents, further Hellenising the empire. His rise to power began in 608, when he and his father, Heraclius the Elder, the exarch of Africa, successfully led a revolt against the unpopular usurper Phocas. Heraclius' reign was marked by several military campaigns. The year Heraclius came to power, the empire was threatened on multiple frontiers. Heraclius immediately took charge of the war against the Sassanids. The first battles of the campaign ended in defeat for the Romans; the Persian army fought...
