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In 1948 he was offered a fellowship at magdalen college and, three years later, took up the post of first university lecturer in the modern history of the near east, becoming director of the middle east centre at st. Albert houranis a history of the arab peoples is an ambitious and successful attempt to summarize fourteen centuries of political, cultural, and religious history of people who inhabited an. His graceful way with words and his talent for getting to the heart of an issue make his survey a pleasure to. Albert hourani was born in manchester, england, in 1915 and studied at oxford university. He attended magdalen college, oxford, where he studied philosophy, politics, and economics. 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. When hourani titled his book, history of the arab peoples, he was being honest and literal the book is literally a history of the peoples, including the development of their interpretations of islam, the formation of various schools of thought on the islamic law and how literally it was to be interpreted, the conflict between secularism and fundamentalism and nationalism in the post. It is a masterly distillation of a lifetime of scholarship and a unique insight into a. Get free shipping on a history of the arab peoples by albert hourani, from. This page for albert hourani s history of the arab peoples offers summary and analysis on themes, symbols, and other literary devices found in the text.
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Albert hourani, the eminent oxford professor, is one of a very few scholars who can authoritatively paint a canvas that stretches in space from morocco to the persian gulf, in time from the prophet muhammad to the recently concluded iraqiran war, and in theme from politics to culture. A history of the arab peoples covers not only political history, but also culture, society, economy and thought, in a work of profound and lasting importance. 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 religio. In a panoramic view encompassing twelve centuries of arab history and culture, hourani brilliantly illuminated the people and events that have fundamentally shaped the arab world. Hourani tries to cover most of the history of the arab peoples, but this is certainly no easy task. Arabic thought in the liberal age 17981939 is the most comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the arab middle east.
A magnificent display of the late albert hourani s lifetime of scholarship, it was a bestseller on first publication in 1991. A panoramic view of 12 centuries of arab history accessrestricteditem. Albert hourani is able to do this in his description of the entire history of the arab peoples up to the late 80s. A history of the arab peoples 1991 edition open library. Albert houranis survey history of the arab peoples covers an impressively large amount of material. He taught the modern history of the middle east at oxford until his retirement, and is. Albert hourani, a history of the arab peoples cambridge, ma.
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