A history of the Arab peoples / Albert Hourani ; with a new afterword by Malise Ruthven.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002.Description: xx, 565 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 0674010175
- 9780674010178
- 956.01 H816h 2002
- DS37.7 .H67 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 514-543) and indexes.
pt. 1. The making of a world (seventh-tenth century) -- pt. 2. Arab Muslim societies (eleventh-fifteenth century) -- pt. 3. The Ottoman age (sixteenth-eighteenth century) -- pt. 4. The age of European empires (1800-1939) -- pt. 5. The age of nation-states (since 1939).
Chronicles the history of Arab civilization, looking at the beauty of the great mosques, the importance attached to education, the achievements of Arab science, the role of women, internal conflicts, and the Palestinian question.
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