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No region in the world today is more important than the Middle East: no people more misunderstood than the Arabs. In this definitive masterwork, distinguished Oxford historian Albert Hourani offers the most lucid, enlightening history ever written on the subject. From the rise of Island... read more
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- Egypt
- Islam
- Syria
- Iraq
- Cairo
- Europe
- Morocco
- Algeria
- France
- Iran
- Tunisia
- Israel
- Lebanon
- Baghdad
- Damascus
- Britain
- Saudi Arabia
- Istanbul
- Spain
- Palestine
- Middle East
- Gulf
- Anatolia
- Sudan
- Indian Ocean
- United States
- Mecca
- Yemen
- Asia
- Africa
- Jerusalem
- Jordan
- Libya
- Beirut
- Aleppo
- Algiers
- Sahara
- Italy
- Russia
- England
- Kuwait
- Umayyad
- Alexandria
- Atlantic
- Germany
- Paris
- America
First Sentence edit
The world of Ibn Khaldun must have seemed everlasting to most of those who belonged to it, but he himself knew that it had replaced an earlier one.
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- Albert Habib Hourani (Author)
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- Dewey: 909.0974927
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