History of Syria : including Lebanon and Palestine /
by Philip K. Hitti.
- London : Macmillan, 1951.
- xxv, 749 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, maps (1 folded) ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Place in history -- Metal implements -- The setting of the stage -- Physical environment -- The advent of Semites -- The Amorites : first major semitic community in Syria -- The Canaanites : second major semitic people in Syria -- Maritime activity and colonial Expansion -- Literature, religion and other aspects of cultural life -- International relations : Egypt -- The Aramaeans : the third major Semitic people -- The Hebrew people -- The Hebrew monarchy -- Aspects of cultural and spiritual life : monotheism -- Under Persian rule -- From the Semitic era to the Indo-European -- Alexander and his successors, The Seleucids -- The Hellenistic age -- Seleucid institutions -- Trade and Industry -- Syria as a Roman province : the pre-empire period -- Under the early Roman emperors -- City and country life -- Intellectual Activity -- The rise of Christianity -- Syrianizing versus Romanizing -- Byzantine Syria -- An ecclesiastical age -- Pre-Islamic Syro-Arab states -- Syria in the embrace of Islam -- Arab administration -- The orthodox caliphate -- Muawiyah establishes the Umayyad caliphate -- Hostile relations with the Byzantines -- Domestic disturebances : Shites, Medinese, Persians -- The glory that was Damascus -- Poitical and social conditions under the Umayyads -- Higher aspects of life unde the Umayyads -- The Syrian Christian church -- Fall of the Umattad dynasty -- Syria an Abbasid province -- Syrian contribution to Arab renaissance -- Syria an adjunct of minor states -- Between Saljuqs and Fatimids -- Meeting of east and west : the crusades -- Cultural interaction -- Ayyubids and Mamluks -- Syria a Turkish province -- The ma'ns and the Shihabs : lords of Lebenon -- The contemporary scene.