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Author Hourani, Albert, 1915-1993.

Title A history of the Arab peoples / Albert Houran.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  953 HOURANI    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  953 H81    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  909.0974 HOU    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  909.0974 H    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  956 HOU    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  909.097 HOU    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  909.0974 HOU    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  909.0974 HOURANI    DUE 04-17-24
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  956 HOURANI    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  909.097 H81    Check Shelf

Description xx, 551 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 500-529) and indexes.
Contents 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 -- 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 -- The Ottoman age (sixteenth-eighteenth century). The Ottoman empire ; Ottoman societies ; The changing balance of power in the eighteenth century -- The age of European empires (1800-1939). European power and reforming governments (1800-1860) ; European empires and dominant élites (1860-1914) ; The culture of imperialism and reform ; The climax of European power (1914-1939) ; Changing ways of life and thought (1914-1939) -- 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 -- Genealogies and dynasties.
Subject Arab countries -- History.
ISBN 0674395654: $24.95
9780674395657
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