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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ISBN
9780571302499
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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