A history of the Arab peoples / Albert Hourani.
By: Hourani, Albert.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Faber, 1991Description: xviii, 551 p : maps, geneal.tables ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0571133789.Subject(s): Arab countries -- History | Middle East -- HistoryDDC classification: 956Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 956 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00084022 |
Bibliography: (pages 500-529) and indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 494-499).
Prologue -- Part I: The making of a world (seventh-tenth century) -- A new power in an old world -- The formation of an empire -- The formation of a Society -- The Articulation of Islam -- Part II: Arab Muslim Societies (Eleventh-Fifteenth century) -- The Arab Muslim World -- The Countryside -- The life of cities -- Cities and their rulers -- Ways of Islam -- The Culture of the 'Ulama -- Divergent paths of thought -- The culture of courts and people -- Part III: The Ottoman age sixteenth-eighteenth century) -- The Ottoman Empire -- Ottoman Societies -- The Changing Balance of Power in the Eighteenth Century -- Part IV: The Age of European Empires (1800-1939) -- European Power and Reforming Governments (1800-1939) European Power and Reforming Governments (1800-1860) -- European Empires and Dominant Elites (1860-1914) -- The culture of Imperialism and Reform -- The Climax of European Power (1914-1939) -- Changing Ways of life and thought (1914-1939) -- Part V: The age of nation-states (since 1939) -- The end of the empires (1939-1962) -- Changing Societies (1940s and 1950s) -- National Culture (1940s and 1950s) -- The climax of Arabism (1950s and 1960s) -- Arab unity and disunity (since 1967) -- A disturbance of spirits (since 1967) -- Maps -- Tables.