TY - BOOK AU - Lewis,Bernard AU - Rogers D.Spotswood Collection TI - The Middle East: a brief history of the last 2,000 years SN - 9780684807126 AV - DS62.R724.M533 1995 PY - 1995/// CY - New York, New York PB - Scribner N1 - 1 (pages 394-396) and index; 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; 2 N2 - 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 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon033/96004384.html UR - http://koleksi-islamptsl.blogspot.com/2011/09/e-rak.html ER -