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A History of the Arab Peoples: With a New Afterword
de Hourani, Albert
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- ISBN 10
- 0674058194
- ISBN 13
- 9780674058194
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Kraków, Poland
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Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2010 8vo (23.5 cm), XXII, 565 pp. Laminated wrappers. "Upon its publication in 1991, Albert Hourani’s masterwork was hailed as the definitive story of Arab civilization, and became both a bestseller and an instant classic. In a panoramic view encompassing twelve centuries of Arab history and culture, Hourani brilliantly illuminated the people and events that have fundamentally shaped the Arab world. Now this seminal book is available in an expanded second edition. Noted Islamic scholar Malise Ruthven brings the story up to date from the mid-1980s, including such events as the Gulf War; civil unrest in Algeria; the change of leadership in Syria, Morocco, and Jordan; and the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001. The terrorist attacks in the United States, ongoing crisis in Iraq, and renewed violence between Israelis and Palestinians all underscore the need for a balanced and well-informed understanding of the Arab world, and make this insightful history of the Arab peoples more important than ever." (from the publisher's description)
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
(PL)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 006973
- Título
- A History of the Arab Peoples: With a New Afterword
- Autor
- Hourani, Albert
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo New
- Cantidad disponible
- 2
- Edición
- 2nd Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0674058194
- ISBN 13
- 9780674058194
- Editorial
- Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Cambridge
- Fecha de publicación
- 2010
- Catálogos del vendedor
- History;
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Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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Sobre el vendedor
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Miembro de Biblio desde 2019
Kraków
Sobre Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specializing in mathematical sciences, Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography, bibliography, history and art of the book, history of libraries and collections
Glosario
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