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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 9/11, 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 Hourani's magisterial history up to date. Ruthven suggests that while Hourani can hardly have been expected to predict in detail the massive upheavals that have shaken the Arab world recently he would not have been entirely surprised, given the persistence of the kin-patronage networks he describes in his book and the challenges now posed to them by a new media-aware generation of dissatisfied youth.In a new biographical preface, Malise Ruthven shows how Hourani's perspectives on Arab history were shaped by his unique background as an English-born Arab Christian with roots in the Levant.

Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939 is the most comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East. Albert Hourani studies the way in which ideas about politics and society changed during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, in response to the expanding influence of Europe. His main attention is given to the movement of ideas in Egypt and Lebanon. He shows how two streams of thought, the one aiming to restate the social principles of Islam, and the other to justify the separation of religion from politics, flowed into each other to create the Egyptian and Arab nationalisms of the present century. The last chapter of the book surveys the main tendencies of thought in the post-war years. Since its publication in 1962, this book has been regarded as a modern classic of interpretation. It was reissued by the Cambridge University Press in 1983 and has subsequently sold over 8000 copies.

This collection of essays focuses on the relation between European and Islamic thought and culture from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century. Albert Hourani explores the development of ideas about Islam in European thought and discusses the individual writers who played an important part in informing and communicating an image of Islamic history and civilisation. He also examines some of the reactions of the Islamic world to the powerful new ideas of European civilization including the first Arabic encyclopedia and translation of Homer.

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 9/11, 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 Hourani's magisterial History up to date. Ruthven suggests that while Hourani can hardly have been expected to predict in detail the massive upheavals that have shaken the Arab world recently he would not have been entirely surprised, given the persistence of the kin-patronage networks he describes in his book and the challenges now posed to them by a new media-aware generation of dissatisfied youth.In a new biographical preface, Malise Ruthven shows how Hourani's perspectives on Arab history were shaped by his unique background as an English-born Arab Christian with roots in the Levant.

Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939 is the most comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East. Albert Hourani studies the way in which ideas about politics and society changed during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, in response to the expanding influence of Europe. His main attention is given to the movement of ideas in Egypt and Lebanon. He shows how two streams of thought, the one aiming to restate the social principles of Islam, and the other to justify the separation of religion from politics, flowed into each other to create the Egyptian and Arab nationalisms of the present century. The last chapter of the book surveys the main tendencies of thought in the post-war years. Since its publication in 1962, this book has been regarded as a modern classic of interpretation. It was reissued by the Cambridge University Press in 1983 and has subsequently sold over 8000 copies.

Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939 is the most comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East. Albert Hourani studies the way in which ideas about politics and society changed during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, in response to the expanding influence of Europe. His main attention is given to the movement of ideas in Egypt and Lebanon. He shows how two streams of thought, the one aiming to restate the social principles of Islam, and the other to justify the separation of religion from politics, flowed into each other to create the Egyptian and Arab nationalisms of the present century. The last chapter of the book surveys the main tendencies of thought in the post-war years. Since its publication in 1962, this book has been regarded as a modern classic of interpretation. It was reissued by the Cambridge University Press in 1983 and has subsequently sold over 8000 copies.

For more than a century emigrants from Lebanon have been establishing communities throughout the world. This book is concerned with those Lebanese who have settled in North and South America, the Caribbean, Australia, West Africa, and other parts of the Middle East. The essays have been written by historians, economists, sociologists and political scientists. They evaluate the impact of Lebanese settlers on host societies, processes of integration, the economic political and cultural aspects of settlement, and the relations they have maintained with the home country. The contributors are Albert Hourani, Professor Charles Issawi, Dr Roger Owen, Patricia Nabii, Kohei Hashimoto, Dr Alixa Naff, Professor Barbara Aswad, Professor Michael Suleiman, Dr Trevor Batrouney, Dr Michael Humphrey, Dr Abe Ata, Ignacio Klich, Professor Clark Knowlton, Dr Jeff Lesser, Dr Estela Valverde, Rev David Nicholls, Dr Louise Lestrange Posada, Dr Luz Maria Martinez Montiel, Dr Robin Ostle, Professor H.Laurens van der Laan, Dr Said Boumedouha, Dr Neil Leighton, Dr Devendra Misra, Professor Boutros Labaki, Dr Marwan Mouaouia, Professor Baha' Aboul Laban, Dr Brian McGuire, Dr Percy Kemp, Professor Rudolf Veccoli, Dr Michael Davie and Professor Fuad Khuri.

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. After a general introduction by Albert Hourani, the essays are arranged in four sections: reforming elites and changing relations with Europe 1789-1918; transformation in society and economy 1789-1918; imperialism and nationalism in the interwar period; and the Middle East since World War II. This revised edition contains a range of additional material on the history of the region since the 1990s.

DAS GRANDIOSE MEISTERWERK, DER KLASSIKER ZUR GESCHICHTE DER ARABISCHEN WELT, von den Anfängen des Islam bis heute.Jetzt in einer repräsentativen Neuausgabe mit einem aktuellen Nachwort, das die Geschichte bis zum Arabischen Frühling weitererzählt.Der große Orientalist Albert Hourani, ein Wanderer zwischen den Welten, präsentiert in seinem elegant erzählten Klassiker die gesamte Geschichte und Kultur der arabischen Völker seit dem 7. Jahrhundert. Brillant beschreibt er die rasante Verbreitung des Islam und erzählt von den Gelehrten, Völkern und Ereignissen, die die arabische Welt prägten. Er schildert Aufstieg und Ende des Osmanischen Reichs, die Folgen der europäischen Expansion und die Konflikte in der Region, bis hin zur Intifada und den Golfkriegen. Wie es danach bis zum Arabischen Frühling weiterging, erzählt der bekannte Publizist und Islamwissenschaftler Malise Ruthven in seinem aktuellen Nachwort.Fulminante historische Erzählung und kluge Analyse zugleich, ist das Buch ein unentbehrlicher Beitrag zum Verständnis der heutigen arabischen Welt.