The Near East in history, a 5000 year story.

By: Hitti, Philip K. (Philip Khuri), 1886-1978Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand [1961] Description: 574 p. illus. 24 cmSubject(s): Middle East -- HistoryGenre/Form: History | History.DDC classification: 956 LOC classification: DS62 | .H68
Contents:
Part one: The preliterary age. The Near East in its world setting -- The setting of the stage -- From savagery to covilization through barbarism -- The dawn of history -- Part two: Ancient semitic times. The dynastic and imperial periods -- Religion and literature -- Secular writings -- Canaaties, Artmaenas and Hebrews -- Cultural contributions: literary and religious -- Part three: The Greco-Roman age. Alexander and his successors -- Hellenistic culture -- Under Roman rule -- Intellectual and religious activity: Christianity -- In Byzantine days -- Ecclesiastical, literary and artistic achievements -- Part four: The Islamic age. The Arabian prophet and the Koran -- Islam the religion -- The caliphal state: in Medina -- The Umayyad caliphate -- The rise of the Abbasids -- Society in Abbasid days -- The caliphate dismembered: successor states -- Crusaders, Ayyubids and mamluks -- Part five: in modern times, Ottomans and Persians. The Ottoman Empire -- Ottoman culture -- The young Turks and the republic -- Safawid Persia -- Qajars and involvement in European politics -- Stirrings of a new life -- The Phlawis and modernization -- Part six: The Arab states. Ottoman background heritage -- The Arab Crescent -- The Arabian Peninsula -- Teh Arab crescent and the west: modernization -- The mandates -- Independence.
Summary: Illustrations include col. front. and maps.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one: The preliterary age. The Near East in its world setting -- The setting of the stage -- From savagery to covilization through barbarism -- The dawn of history -- Part two: Ancient semitic times. The dynastic and imperial periods -- Religion and literature -- Secular writings -- Canaaties, Artmaenas and Hebrews -- Cultural contributions: literary and religious -- Part three: The Greco-Roman age. Alexander and his successors -- Hellenistic culture -- Under Roman rule -- Intellectual and religious activity: Christianity -- In Byzantine days -- Ecclesiastical, literary and artistic achievements -- Part four: The Islamic age. The Arabian prophet and the Koran -- Islam the religion -- The caliphal state: in Medina -- The Umayyad caliphate -- The rise of the Abbasids -- Society in Abbasid days -- The caliphate dismembered: successor states -- Crusaders, Ayyubids and mamluks -- Part five: in modern times, Ottomans and Persians. The Ottoman Empire -- Ottoman culture -- The young Turks and the republic -- Safawid Persia -- Qajars and involvement in European politics -- Stirrings of a new life -- The Phlawis and modernization -- Part six: The Arab states. Ottoman background heritage -- The Arab Crescent -- The Arabian Peninsula -- Teh Arab crescent and the west: modernization -- The mandates -- Independence.

Illustrations include col. front. and maps.