The Middle East : a brief history of the last 2,000 years
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xii, 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm
The Middle East from earliest times to the present has exerted a powerful influence on the rest of the world
"A Touchstone book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-396) and index
Antecedents -- Before Christianity -- Before Islam -- The dawn and noon of islam -- Origins -- The 'Abbasid caliphate -- The coming of the steppe peoples -- The Mongol aftermath -- The gunpowder empires -- Cross-sections -- The state -- The economy -- The elites -- The commonalty -- Religion and law -- Culture -- The challenge of modernity -- Challenge -- Change -- Response and reaction -- New ideas -- From war to war -- From freedom to freedom
The Middle East from earliest times to the present has exerted a powerful influence on the rest of the world
"A Touchstone book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-396) and index
Antecedents -- Before Christianity -- Before Islam -- The dawn and noon of islam -- Origins -- The 'Abbasid caliphate -- The coming of the steppe peoples -- The Mongol aftermath -- The gunpowder empires -- Cross-sections -- The state -- The economy -- The elites -- The commonalty -- Religion and law -- Culture -- The challenge of modernity -- Challenge -- Change -- Response and reaction -- New ideas -- From war to war -- From freedom to freedom
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