History of the Arabs: From the Earliest Times to the Present (1937; reissue 2002 of rev. 10th ed. 1970)
Philip K. Hitti [Hitti, Philip, Khuri],
This authoritative study of the Arabians and the Arabic-speaking
peoples is a work of great thoroughness and insight which contains much
to satisfy general readers as well as scholars. Here is the story of the
rise of Islam in the Middle Ages, its conquests, its empire, its time
of greatness and of decay, unrolling one of the richest and most
instructive panoramas in history. For this reissue of the tenth edition,
Walid Khalidi gives a brief overview of the history and content of the
book, and emphasises the vital importance of Philip K. Hitti's
magisterial and scholarly work to on-going attempts to bridge the
Arab/Western cultural divide.
This accessible text is ideal not only
for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Arabic and Islamic
studies, but also for the general reader and many scholars in various
fields of history.
peoples is a work of great thoroughness and insight which contains much
to satisfy general readers as well as scholars. Here is the story of the
rise of Islam in the Middle Ages, its conquests, its empire, its time
of greatness and of decay, unrolling one of the richest and most
instructive panoramas in history. For this reissue of the tenth edition,
Walid Khalidi gives a brief overview of the history and content of the
book, and emphasises the vital importance of Philip K. Hitti's
magisterial and scholarly work to on-going attempts to bridge the
Arab/Western cultural divide.
This accessible text is ideal not only
for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Arabic and Islamic
studies, but also for the general reader and many scholars in various
fields of history.
年:
1937
出版:
reissue 2002 of the rev. 10th ed. 1970
出版社:
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
语言:
english
ISBN 10:
0333631420
ISBN 13:
9780333631423
文件:
EPUB, 13.05 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1937