Buy this book on-line HOURANI, ALBERT: : A HISTORY OF THE ARAB PEOPLESLONDON.FABER & FABER,1991. ISBN 0674395654.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Slightly rubbed dw/dj edges,chipped head of spine/backstrip - no major or minor tears.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,551pp includes b/w maps,tables,notes,a bibliography,an index of terms and a general index.Published @ £25.00.
This is a history of the countries where Arabic is the main language and Islam the most widespread religion.Hourani begins in the 7thC,when the new religion of Islam spread from the Arabian peninsula and carried the Arabic language with it,and brings the story down to the present day. He shows how the history of the Arabs is connected with some of the great themes
of world history: the creation of an Islamic empire,and of an Arab-Islamic Empire,and of an Arab-Islamic culture with its own forms of intellectual and artistic expression,the rise and gradual disintergration of the Ottoman Empire,the
expansion of European trade and power in the 19thC,the emergence of nationalism and nation states,the transformation of Arabic culture under new influences,and the reassertion of Islamic identity in recent times.The Arab countries extend over a wide area,from the coast of the Atlantic to that of the Indian Ocean and each has its own historical traditions and interests in the modern world.
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