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An Analysis of Albert Hourani's A History of the Arab Peoples

An Analysis of Albert Hourani's A History of the Arab Peoples

Gibson, Bryan
Brown, J. A. O. C.

Paperback

Series: Macat Library

Literary CriticismGeneral ArtGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1912127695
ISBN13: 9781912127696
Publisher: Macat Library
Published: Jul 4 2017
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

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.

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