A History of the Arab Peoples

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-01-03 Pages: 640 Language: English Publisher: Faber and Faber In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance. the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century. when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian peninsula westwards. to the present day. It is a masterly distillation of a lifetime of scholarship and a unique insight into a perpetually troubled region.This updated edition by Malise Ruthven adds a substantial new chapter which includes recent events such as 911. the US invasion of Iraq and its bloody aftermath. the fall of the Mubarak and Ben Ali regimes in Egypt and Tunisia. and the incipient civil war in Syria. bringing Houranis magisterial History up to date.Ruthven suggests that while Hourani can hardly have been expected to predict in detail the massive upheavals...