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The Middle East : a brief history of the last 2,000 years / Bernard Lewis.

By: Material type: TextTextAnalytics: Show analyticsPublisher: New York, NY : Touchstone, 1997Copyright date: ©1995Edition: First Touchstone editionDescription: xii, 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0684832801
  • 9780684832807
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 956 21
LOC classification:
  • DS62 .L594 1997
Contents:
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.
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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.

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