An Analysis Of Albert Hourani's A History Of The Arab Peoples Av Brown, Bryan Gibson

Few works of history make as well-structured a case for the importance of studying continuity, rather than change, than Albert Hourani''s A History of the Arab Peoples. Hourani¿s work had three major aims: to refute the idea that Arab society stagnated between 1000 and 1800; to study the period through the lens of diverse Arab, rather than Muslim, history; and to stress intellectual and cultural continuity. All of these intentions were the product of the author¿s evaluation of a great mass of secondary sources, many of them devoted to arguing for ideas that contradicted his, and it demanded considerable skill to synthesize from them a coherent and well-evidenced counter-argument. Hourani was able to do this largely because his grasp of the relevance and adequacy of his predecessors'' arguments was second to none; his achievement lies in his ability to reject the reasoning of other historians while still making good use of their evidence. In this task, he was a

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A History Of The Arab Peoples Av Albert Hourani

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 religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian peninsula westwards, to...

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For those who lived through the Cold War period, and for many of the historians who study it, it seemed self-evident that the critical incidents that determined its course took place in the northern hemisphere, specifically in the face-off between...

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An Analysis Of Albert Hourani's A History Of The Arab Peoples Av Brown, Bryan Gibson

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