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

<P>Few works of history make as well-structured a case for the importance of studying continuity, rather than change, than Albert Hourani''s A <EM>History of the Arab Peoples</EM>. </P><P>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. </P><P>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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