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History of the Arab Peoples
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History of the Arab Peoples Hardcover - 1997

by Albert Hourani

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Mjf Books, January 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The condition of the book is Very Good. A little shelf worn but looks unread. Previous owner's name written inside front cover on first page. 'Library of...' seal of previous owner stamped into front endpaper. DJ has one 1/2 inch tear at base of spine repaired on reveerse side with tape.
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  • Title History of the Arab Peoples
  • Author Albert Hourani
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 576
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mjf Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date January 1997
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 45569
  • ISBN 9781567312164 / 1567312160
  • Weight 2.22 lbs (1.01 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.48 x 1.52 in (24.13 x 16.46 x 3.86 cm)
  • Reading level 1370
  • Dewey Decimal Code 909.097

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About this book

In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian peninsula westwards, to the present day. It is a masterly distillation of a lifetime of scholarship and a unique insight into a perpetually troubled region. This updated edition by Malise Ruthven adds a substantial new chapter which includes recent events such as 9/11, the US invasion of Iraq and its bloody aftermath, the fall of the Mubarak and Ben Ali regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, and the incipient civil war in Syria, bringing Hourani's magisterial history up to date. Ruthven suggests that while Hourani can hardly have been expected to predict in detail the massive upheavals that have shaken the Arab world recently he would not have been entirely surprised, given the persistence of the kin-patronage networks he describes in his book and the challenges now posed to them by a new media-aware generation of dissatisfied youth. In a new biographical preface, Malise Ruthven shows how Hourani's perspectives on Arab history were shaped by his unique background as an English-born Arab Christian with roots in the Levant.

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The world of Ibn Khaldun must have seemed everlasting to most of those who belonged to it, but he himself knew that it had replaced an earlier one.

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