books by Albert Hourani

books by Albert Hourani

books:

Albert Hourani

Albert Hourani

Belknap Harvard, 1991

Classic Beginner Book
This well organized book is a real gem. I used this personally as a reference for many of my songs and personal books. You better think about it baby, cause it's certainly worthy.

The Modern Middle East: Revised Edition

I. B. Tauris, 2004

Very useful and readable text
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 ...

Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country
Peter Sluglett

Columbia University Press, 2007

After the end of World War I, international pressures prevented the Allies from implementing direct colonial rule over the former Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Instead, the Allies created a system of mandates for the governance of the Middle East. France was assigned Lebanon and Syria, and Britain was assigned Iraq, Palestine, and ...

Islam in European Thought

Albert Hourani

Cambridge University Press, 1992

invaluable
This is an invaluable companion to islamic history, historiography and the historians themselves. This book contains monograph-type short essays on wide topics concerning middle-east and Islam. With an emphasis on sociology of the society to be studied the author makes ...

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa (Cambridge World Encyclopedias)

Cambridge University Press, 1988

Analysing the region from its ancient civilizations to the present day, this encyclopedia covers the Middle East from the Maghrib in the West to Turkey and Afghanistan, looking at the distinctive features of the region, both cultural, political, social and religious.

A History of the Arab Peoples: Second Edition

Albert Hourani, Malise Ruthven

Belknap Press, 2003

Exellent book
This book should be (and is in some Universities) mandatory for the study of the Middle East in general and Arab peoples specifically. Written by Albert Hourani one of the great scholars of the Middle East it is both concise and comprehensive covering centuries of ...

Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939

Albert Hourani

Cambridge University Press, 1983

The genesis of Arab modern thought
This book is an extensive version of Hisham Sharabi's Arab Intellectuals. It highlights the reaction of the Arab intellectual circles to the expanding European influence that had reached the Arab world by the early 19th century. Hourani, however, presents a more ...

La historia de los Arabes (Biografia Historica) (Spanish Edition)

Albert Hourani

Ediciones B, 2007

La Historia de Los arabes
Resumen A partir el siglo VII, cuando la nueva religión del islam empezaba a propagarse desde la península arábiga hacia Occidente, hasta el presente, Albert Hourani despliega con eficacia y con una amplia documentación la historia de los pueblos árabes, así como su ...