History of the Arab Peoples

by Albert Hourani (Author)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $3.24

  This history of the countries where Arabic is the main language of speech and culture, stretching from Morocco to Iraq, covers the period from the 7th to the 10th century, when the new religion of Islam carried the Arabic language with it and created an Arabic Muslim world. The story is carried up to the 1980s and the author shows how Arab history is intertwined with some of the great processes of world history. The author has also written Europe and the Middle East and The Emergence of the Modern Middle East .

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.24

  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.