ALBERT HOURANI A HISTORY OF THE ARAB PEOPLES PDF

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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. 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. Albert Hourani. The Formation of an Empire.

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T his bestselling history of the Arab-speaking parts of the Islamic world by British-Lebanese historian Albert Hourani first appeared in A lot has happened since. In a new preface, journalist and Islamic scholar Malise Ruthven offers a potted biography of Hourani, while his afterword is a skilful summation of events in the past two decades including a section on the Islamist challenge in Algeria.

While Hourani did not predict the Arab spring, says Ruthven, he understood the precariousness of the region's regimes. The absence of civil society suggests that Arab democracy is some way off, Ruthven concludes, perhaps its greatest obstacle being a concept that Hourani calls 'asabiyya — a power-hungry "clannism" made more ruthless by modern systems of surveillance and torture.

Hourani has been criticised for downplaying the violence, racism and misogyny of some Arab-Islamic societies, but Ruthven's contribution helps to restore the balance, making this a splendid general history of the Arab world from the life of Muhammad to the Facebook-using young activists who gathered in Tahrir Square calling for change. Topics History books. Reuse this content. Order by newest oldest recommendations. Show 25 25 50 All.

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Hourani, History of the Arab Peoples

T his bestselling history of the Arab-speaking parts of the Islamic world by British-Lebanese historian Albert Hourani first appeared in A lot has happened since. In a new preface, journalist and Islamic scholar Malise Ruthven offers a potted biography of Hourani, while his afterword is a skilful summation of events in the past two decades including a section on the Islamist challenge in Algeria. While Hourani did not predict the Arab spring, says Ruthven, he understood the precariousness of the region's regimes. The absence of civil society suggests that Arab democracy is some way off, Ruthven concludes, perhaps its greatest obstacle being a concept that Hourani calls 'asabiyya — a power-hungry "clannism" made more ruthless by modern systems of surveillance and torture. Hourani has been criticised for downplaying the violence, racism and misogyny of some Arab-Islamic societies, but Ruthven's contribution helps to restore the balance, making this a splendid general history of the Arab world from the life of Muhammad to the Facebook-using young activists who gathered in Tahrir Square calling for change.

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A History of the Arab Peoples

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A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani – review

The book presents the history of the Arabs from the advent of Islam although some pre-Islamic history is included to the late 20th Century. More recent editions contain an afterword by Malise Ruthven bringing the history up to the present day including the Invasion of Iraq. Hourani follows the methodology employed by Ibn Khaldun in his Muqaddimah , specifically the reliance on the concept of asabiyyah as a means of accounting for dynastic and political changes. Thus, the book involves a considerable amount of social history as well as economic history in order to account for the rise and subsequent fall of historical powers such as the Umayyad and Ottoman Empires. Hourani's specialisation was in intellectual history, and this is also a focus of this work. Considerable rigour is given to explanations of the rise of Arab nationalism , Salafism , Ba'athism and Islamism. The book has been translated into Arabic , and the book has found some currency in Arab universities and schools as an introductory text for Arab history.

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A History of the Arab Peoples : Updated Edition

In a panoramic view encompassing twelve centuries of Arab history and culture, Hourani brilliantly illuminated the people and events that have fundamentally shaped the Arab world. Now this seminal book is available in an expanded second edition. Noted Islamic scholar Malise Ruthven brings the story up to date from the mids, including such events as the Gulf War; civil unrest in Algeria; the change of leadership in Syria, Morocco, and Jordan; and the aftermath of the events of September 11, The terrorist attacks in the United States, ongoing crisis in Iraq, and renewed violence between Israelis and Palestinians all underscore the need for a balanced and well-informed understanding of the Arab world, and make this insightful history of the Arab peoples more important than ever. Remembering Our Veterans during a Pandemic. Social distancing will make this Memorial Day quite different from what we are used to. No motorcycles rumbling around the Nati ….

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