The Middle East : a brief history of the last 2,000 years /
Lewis, Bernard, 1916-,
The Middle East : a brief history of the last 2,000 years / [print] Bernard Lewis. - New York, New York : Scribner, (c)1995. - xii, 433 pages, 16. pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Before Christianity -- Before Islam -- Origins -- The 'Abbasid Caliphate -- The coming of the Steppe peoples -- The Mongol aftermath -- The gunpowder empires -- The state -- The economy -- The elites -- The commonalty -- Religion and law -- Culture -- Challenge -- Change -- Response and reaction-- New ideas -- From war to war -- From freedom to freedom.
Charts the successive transformations of the Middle East; details the forces that have shaped the history of the region: the Islamic religion and legal system; the traditions of government; the immense variety of trade and the wide range of crops; the elites--military, commercial, religious, intellectual and artistic--and the commonality, including such socially distinct groups as slaves, women, and non-believers.
9780684807126 9780684832807
96004384
DS62.R724.M533 1995
The Middle East : a brief history of the last 2,000 years / [print] Bernard Lewis. - New York, New York : Scribner, (c)1995. - xii, 433 pages, 16. pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Before Christianity -- Before Islam -- Origins -- The 'Abbasid Caliphate -- The coming of the Steppe peoples -- The Mongol aftermath -- The gunpowder empires -- The state -- The economy -- The elites -- The commonalty -- Religion and law -- Culture -- Challenge -- Change -- Response and reaction-- New ideas -- From war to war -- From freedom to freedom.
Charts the successive transformations of the Middle East; details the forces that have shaped the history of the region: the Islamic religion and legal system; the traditions of government; the immense variety of trade and the wide range of crops; the elites--military, commercial, religious, intellectual and artistic--and the commonality, including such socially distinct groups as slaves, women, and non-believers.
9780684807126 9780684832807
96004384
DS62.R724.M533 1995