Lewis, Bernard,  1916-, <br/><br/>
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 
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<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780684807126 9780684832807 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96004384 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS62.R724.M533 1995