History of the Arabs

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REVIEWS 'Philip Hitti's splendid masterwork...[is] an essential purchase for all our libraries...' - David Sasha, Sepharic Heritage Update DESCRIPTION This authoritative study of the Arabians and the Arabic-speaking peoples is a hugely valuable source of information on Arab history. Suitable for both scholars and the general reader, it unrolls one of the richest and most instructive panoramas in history, telling with insight the story of the rise of Islam in the Middle Ages, its conquests, its empire, its time of greatness and of decay. For this revised tenth edition, Walid Khalidis timely Preface emphasises that now, more than ever, this magisterial work is of vital importance to the on-going attempts to bridge the Arab/Western cultural divide. CONTENTS Preface to the Revised Tenth Edition Preface to the Tenth Edition Preface to the First Edition PART THE PRE-ISLAMIC WORLD PART THE RISE OF ISLAM AND THE CALIPHAL STATE PART THE UMAYYAD AND ABBASID EMPIRES PART THE ARABS IN SPAIN AND SICILY PART THE LAST OF THE MEDIEVAL MOSLEM STATES PART OTTOMAN RULE AND INDEPENDENCE Index AUTHORS BIOGRAPHIES PHILIP K. HITTI was born in Lebanon in 1886 and from 1913 til his death in 1978 lived for the most part in USA, teaching first at Columbia and later at Princeton, from which he retired in 1954 as Professor of Semitic Literature and Chairman of the Department of Oriental Languages.