TY - BOOK AU - Hourani, Albert. TI - A history of the Arab peoples SN - 9780571288014 U1 - 909.097HOU PY - 2002/// CY - Cambridge PB - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Arab countries--History N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 514-543) and indexes N2 - 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 ER -