The Middle East : a brief history of the last 2,000 years /

The Middle East : a brief history of the last 2,000 years /

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Main Author: Lewis, Bernard, 1916-2018.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: New York, N.Y. : Scribner, c1995.

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Middle East > History.

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Call Number: DS62 .L594 1995

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Before Christianity
  • 2. Before Islam
  • 3. Origins
  • 4. The 'Abbasid Caliphate
  • 5. The coming of the Steppe peoples
  • 6. The Mongol aftermath
  • 7. The gunpowder empires
  • 8. The state
  • 9. The economy
  • 10. The elites
  • 11. The commonalty
  • 12. Religion and law
  • 13. Culture
  • 14. Challenge
  • 15. Change
  • 16. Response and reaction
  • 17. New ideas
  • 18. From war to war
  • 19. From freedom to freedom.