The Arabs in History

DESCRIPTION:

This work seeks to isolate and examine certain basic issues - the place of the Arabs in human history, their identity, their achievements, and the salient characteristics of the several ages of their development.

What is an Arab? Ethnic terms are notoriously difficult to define, and Arab is not among the easiest. One possible definition may be set aside at once. The Arabs may be a nation; they are not as yet a nationality in the legal sense. A man who calls himself an Arab may be described in his passport as of Syrian of Lebanese, Jordanian or Egyptian, Iraqi or Saudi-Arabian nationality, but not Arab. There are Arab states, and indeed a League of Arab states, but as yet no single Arab State, of which all Arabs are nationals.

LIST OF CONTENTS:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Arabia Before Islam]Muhammad and the Rise of Islam
• The Age of the Conquests
• The Arab Kingdom
• The Islamic Empire
• The Revolt of Islam
• The Arabs in Europe
• Islamic Civilization
• The Arabs in Eclipse
• The Impact of the West
• Bibliography
• Index

DETAILS:

ISBN: ​9788187570592
AUTHOR: Professor Bernard Lewis
LANGUAGE: English
BINDING: Paperback
PAGES: 190 Pages
DIMENSIONS: 12 x 18 x 1.2 cm
WEIGHT: 0.45 kg
YEAR FIRST PUBLISHED: 2001
PUBLISHER: Goodword Books

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Bernard Lewis was born on May 31, 1916 in Stoke Newington, The United Kingdom. His Genre of preference was History and Non-Fiction and earned himself an International recognition as the greatest historian of the Middle East, he received fifteen honorary doctorates and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Bernard Lewis was also the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton University and the author of many critically acclaimed and bestselling books, including two of the No.1 New York Times Bestseller's: 
1) "What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East"
2) "The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years", which Received the Finalist Award at the National Book Critics Circle.

Professor Bernard Lewis passed away on May 19, 2018.