A History of the Arab Peoples

With a New Afterword

Albert Hourani

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PAPERBACK

$32.00 • £25.95 • €29.00

ISBN 9780674058194

Publication Date: 11/15/2010

* Academic Trade

624 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

32 halftones; 13 maps

Belknap Press

North America only

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Albert Hourani (1915–1993) was Emeritus Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford.

Malise Ruthven is a former editor with the BBC Arabic Service and World Service in London and is the author of Islam in the World and Islam: A Very Short Introduction.

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