A history of the Arab peoples /
Albert Hourani.
- Cambridge, Mass : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2010.
- xx, 565 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART I. THE MAKING OF A WORLD (SEVENTH-TENTH CENTURY). 1. A New Power in an Old World -- 2. The Formation of an Empire -- 3. The Formation of a Society -- 4. The Articulation of Islam -- PART II. ARAB MUSLIM SOCIETIES (ELEVENTH-FIFTEENTH CENTURY). 5. The Arab Muslim World -- 6. The Countryside -- 7. The Life of Cities -- 8. Cities and Their Rulers -- 9. Ways of Islam -- 10. The Culture of the Ulama -- 11. Divergent Paths of Thought -- 12. The Culture of Courts and People -- PART III. THE OTTOMAN AGE (SIXTEENTH-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY). 13. The Ottoman Empire -- 14. Ottoman Societies -- 15. The Changing Balance of Power in the Eighteenth Century -- PART IV. THE AGE OF EUROPEAN EMPIRES (1800-1939). 16. European Power and Reforming Governments (1800-1860) -- 17. European Empires and Dominant Elites (1860-1914) -- 18. The Culture of Imperialism and Reform -- 19. The Climax of European Power (1914-1939) -- 20. Changing Ways of Life and Thought (1914-1939) -- PART V. THE AGE OF NATION-STATES (SINCE 1939). 21. The End of the Empires (1939-1962) -- 22. Changing Societies (1940s and 1950s) -- 23. National Culture (1940s and 1950s) -- 24. The Climax of Arabism (1950s and 1960s) -- 25. Arab Unity and Disunity (since 1967) -- 26. A Disturbance of Spirits (since 1967).