A History of the Arab Peoples

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A History of the Arab Peoples

Author	Albert Hourani
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Subject	History of Arab countries
Publisher	Faber and Faber
Publication date	February 18, 1991
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	576
ISBN	978-0-674-39565-7
Dewey Decimal	909.0974927
LC Class	DS37.7.H67

A History of the Arab Peoples is a book written by the British-born Lebanese historian Albert Hourani.^[1][2]

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.^{[citation needed]}

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. It has also been used as a text for upper-level courses in Arabic as a second language, on account of the highly readable style of Kamal Khouly's translation.

See also[]

• History of the Arabs by Philip K. Hitti
• The Arabs in History by Bernard Lewis

External links[]

• Albert Hourani; Malise Ruthven (30 November 2010). A History of the Arab Peoples: With a New Afterword. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-05819-4. Retrieved 23 December 2011.

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