A history of the Arab peoples /

Hourani, Albert Habib.

A history of the Arab peoples / Albert Hourani ; with a new afterword by Malise Ruthven. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. - xx, 565 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., geneal. tables, maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 514-543) and indexes.

pt. 1. The making of a world (seventh-tenth century) -- pt. 2. Arab Muslim societies (eleventh-fifteenth century) -- pt. 3. The Ottoman age (sixteenth-eighteenth century) -- pt. 4. The age of European empires (1800-1939) -- pt. 5. The age of nation-states (since 1939).

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Civilization, Arab.


Arab countries--History.

DS37.7 / .H67 2002