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Author Hourani, Albert, 1915-1993.
Title A history of the Arab peoples / Albert Hourani ; with a new afterword by Malise Ruthven.
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002.
Description xx, 565 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., geneal. tables, maps ; 25 cm.

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Table of Contents
 List of Maps 
 Preface 
 Acknowledgements 
 Note on Spelling 
 Note on Dates 
 Prologue1
Pt. IThe Making of a World (Seventh-Tenth Century) 
 1A New Power in an Old World7
 2The Formation of an Empire22
 3The Formation of a Society38
 4The Articulation of Islam59
Pt. IIArab Muslim Societies (Eleventh-Fifteenth Century) 
 5The Arab Muslim World83
 6The Countryside98
 7The Life of Cities109
 8Cities and Their Rulers130
 9Ways of Islam147
 10The Culture of the 'Ulama158
 11Divergent Paths of Thought172
 12The Culture of Courts and People189
Pt. IIIThe Ottoman Age (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Century) 
 13The Ottoman Empire209
 14Ottoman Societies231
 15The Changing Balance of Power in the Eighteenth Century249
Pt. IVThe Age of European Empires (1800-1939) 
 16European Power and Reforming Governments (1800-1860)265
 17European Empires and Dominant Elites (1860-1914)279
 18The Culture of Imperialism and Reform299
 19The Climax of European Power (1914-1939)315
 20Changing Ways of Life and Thought (1914-1939)333
Pt. VThe Age of Nation-States (since 1939) 
 21The End of the Empires (1939-1962)353
 22Changing Societies (1940s and 1950s)373
 23National Culture (1940s and 1950s)389
 24The Climax of Arabism (1950s and 1960s)401
 25Arab Unity and Disunity (since 1967)416
 26A Disturbance of Spirits (since 1967)434
 Afterword 2002459
 Maps473
 Tables497
 Notes508
 Bibliography514
 Index of Terms544
 Index547
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 514-543) and indexes.
Subject Keywords Arab countries -- History.
Subjects Arabs -- Civilization.
Other Author Ruthven, Malise.
ISBN 0674010175
OCLC/Bib Util # 51847169

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