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A history of the Arab peoples
- Title
- A history of the Arab peoples / Albert Hourani.
- Author
- Hourani, Albert, 1915-1993.
- Publication
- Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002, ©1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DS37.7 .H67 1992 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Ruthven, Malise.
- Description
- xviii, 565 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Note
- Repr. with a new afterword by Malise Ruthven. - Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. The Making of a World (Seventh-Tenth Century) -- 1. A New Power in an Old World -- 2. The Formation of an Empire -- 3. The Formation of a Society -- 4. The Articulation of Islam -- Pt. II. Arab Muslim Societies (Eleventh-Fifteenth Century) -- 5. The Arab Muslim World -- 6. The Countryside -- 7. The Life of Cities -- 8. Cities and Their Rulers -- 9. Ways of Islam -- 10. The Culture of the 'Ulama -- 11. Divergent Paths of Thought -- 12. The Culture of Courts and People -- Pt. III. The Ottoman Age (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Century) -- 13. The Ottoman Empire -- 14. Ottoman Societies -- 15. The Changing Balance of Power in the Eighteenth Century -- Pt. IV. The Age of European Empires (1800-1939) -- 16. European Power and Reforming Governments (1800-1860) -- 17. European Empires and Dominant Elites (1860-1914) -- 18. The Culture of Imperialism and Reform -- 19. The Climax of European Power (1914-1939) --
- 20. Changing Ways of Life and Thought (1914-1939) -- Pt. V. The Age of Nation-States (since 1939) -- 21. The End of the Empires (1939-1962) -- 22. Changing Societies (1940s and 1950s) -- 23. National Culture (1940s and 1950s) -- 24. The Climax of Arabism (1950s and 1960s) -- 25. Arab Unity and Disunity (since 1967) -- 26. A Disturbance of Spirits (since 1967).
- ISBN
- 0674010175
- OCLC
- 51847169
- ocm51847169
- SCSB-4337400
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries