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This textbook assembles key writings on the modern history of the Middle East by some of the most distinguished specialists in the field. The book aims to meet the needs of a wide range of students.... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520082419
ISBN13:9780520082410
Release Date:April 1994
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:600 Pages
Weight:2.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"
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Asia Cultural History Middle East Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social SciencesCustomer Reviews
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I came across this book by chance while searching for other Hourani titles. Hourani is an editor and writes the opening essay; nontheless, I found it to be an invaluable complement to his History of the Arab Peoples which desctibes 13 centuries of history. This volume has the room to cover in greater detail the ideas, customs and culture that accompanied and shaped the historical events. There are excellent essays on the shaping of Arab thought in the late 19th century and the ideological - modern transformation of Turkey/Ottoman Empire at the outset of the 20th century. Other essyas deal with the customs of the serraglio, cinema modern literature and economic affairs. It's truly encyclopedic and I find that the oxford encyclopedia of Islam ed. by Esposito is the volume that more closely approaches it. The essays cover the period considered the modern era (i.e from the French revolution and Napoleon's invasion of Egypt to the present)and features leading scholars' essays. I recommended it to one of my professors to use as a companion volume in his Modern Middle East course.
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