A History of the Arab Peoples: Updated Edition [Audiobook] download free by Albert Hourani
- Listen audiobook: A History of the Arab Peoples: Updated Edition
- Author: Albert Hourani
- Release date: 2013/8/23
- Publisher: FABER & FABER
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Religious
- ISBN: 9780571288014
- Rating: 9.2 of 10
- Votes: 104
- Review by: Mariam Edmonds
- Review rating: 8.03 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/16
- Duration: 7H58M23S in 256 kbps (128 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-21
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Shorten, FLAC, AC3, WMA, MPEG4, MP3, WAV (compression BZ2, TBZ, ZIP, LZO, LZ, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 640
- Includes a PDF summary of 66 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 50M10S (13.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian peninsula westwards, to the present day. It is a masterly distillation of a lifetime of scholarship and a unique insight into a perpetually troubled region.This updated edition by Malise Ruthven adds a substantial new chapter which includes recent events such as 9/11, the US invasion of Iraq and its bloody aftermath, the fall of the Mubarak and Ben Ali regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, and the incipient civil war in Syria, bringing Hourani's magisterial history up to date. Ruthven suggests that while Hourani can hardly have been expected to predict in detail the massive upheavals that have shaken the Arab world recently he would not have been entirely surprised, given the persistence of the kin-patronage networks he describes in his book and the challenges now posed to them by a new media-aware generation of dissatisfied youth.In a new biographical preface, Malise Ruthven shows how Hourani's perspectives on Arab history were shaped by his unique background as an English-born Arab Christian with roots in the Levant.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Middle Eastern History, Islamic Story & History Books
- Download servers: Hotfile, FreakShare, Google Drive, Mediafire, EliteTorrent. Compressed in BZ2, TBZ, ZIP, LZO, LZ, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.61 USD
- Dimensions: 126x198x38mm
- Weight: 485g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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