Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, xxi, 551 pp, 16 ff b & w photo plates, 12 maps, notes, bibliography, index. Light soil to edges. DJ has crease on top corner of rear flap, minimal edge wear; in a Brodart cover. A comprehensive single-volume history from the seventh century to the twentieth century. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 4 oz.). 4th ptg. . VG+/VG+. 24 X 16½ cm.

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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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Bookseller: Twin City Antiquarian Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: HIME00014
Title: A History of the Arab Peoples
Author: Hourani, Albert
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG+
Jacket Condition: VG+
Edition: 4th ptg
ISBN 10: 0674395654
ISBN 13: 9780674395657
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Place of Publication: Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1991
Keywords: History Middle East Arabia
Bookseller catalogs: History - Middle East;
X weight: 64 oz
Size: 24 X 16½ cm

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