History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani

History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani

This text covers not only political history, but also culture, society, economy and thought. A distillation of the late Albert Hourani's lifetime of scholarship, it was a bestseller when first published in 1991. This edition includes such recent events as the ongoing crisis in Iraq, the civil war in Algeria and the aftermath of September 11th.

'A masterly summation of the Arab peoples.. It is difficult to overestimate the signal importance of this book for this time. Here at last is a genuinely readable, genuinely responsive history of the Arabs.' Edward Said 'If anyone wants to understand the tangled web of likes and dislikes of each other among the Arab peoples or the pull of fundamentalism, here is the place to find it.' David Holloway, Sunday Telegraph 'A splendid achievement... Written with just the right mix of empathy and sensitivity, and a feel for the irony of human history. This is history in the grand style.' New York Times

Albert Hourani was elected a Fellow of Magdalen and appointed Lecturer (later Reader) in the Modern History of the Middle East at Oxford in 1948. From 1958 until 1971 he was Director of the Middle East Centre. He died in 1993. Malise Ruthven is the author of, amongst other works, Islam in the World and Islam: A Very Short Introduction.

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ISBN 13	9780571215911
ISBN 10	0571215912
Title	History of the Arab Peoples
Author	Albert Hourani
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2002-09-02
Number of pages	592
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