A History of the Arab Peoples - Folio Society edition

A History of the Arab Peoples

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A History of the Arab Peoples
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A History of the Arab Peoples

Albert Hourani
Edition year 2009
Binding Buckram
Illustrator Reginald Piggott
Weight 2 Kg
Pages 659
Dimensions 25.2 × 17.7 cm

Edition details

A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani. Introduction and afterword by Malise Ruthven. Maps by Reginald Piggott. 33 pages of plates. 659pp. 26cm.

About the book

Eminent historian Albert Hourani distils a lifetime of learning into his remarkable history of the Arab peoples, from the 7th century - when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian Peninsula - to the present day. At the dawn of the 7th century, as the two world dominating empires of Byzantium and Sasanid Persia began to crumble and decay, a prophet in a remote desert town began to preach a compelling message of moral reform and submission to the will of God. Propelled by the teachings of Muhammad, the Arab tribes united in a career of conquest which spread the rule of Islam from Spain and North Africa in the west to Pakistan in the east and established a new empire that lasted for 800 years. Under its auspices, the Arab peoples created a unified civilisation unrivalled in its wealth and sophistication.

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