The Middle East : a brief history of the last 2,000 years /
Lewis, Bernard, 1916-
The Middle East : a brief history of the last 2,000 years / Bernard Lewis. - First Touchstone edition. - xii, 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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.
0684832801 9780684832807
Middle East--History
DS62 / .L594 1997
956
The Middle East : a brief history of the last 2,000 years / Bernard Lewis. - First Touchstone edition. - xii, 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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.
0684832801 9780684832807
Middle East--History
DS62 / .L594 1997
956