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The Middle East : a brief history of the last 2,000 years / Bernard Lewis. [print]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, New York : Scribner, (c)1995.Description: xii, 433 pages, 16. pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780684807126
  • 9780684832807
LOC classification:
  • DS62.R724.M533 1995
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction DS62.L594 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923000953600

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.

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