- Arabs, History, Arab Civilization
This authoritative study of the Arabians and the Arabic-speaking peoples is a 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.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Philip K. Hitti
- First published
- 1951
- Pages
- 834
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan, Macmillan
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780333631416
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“OF all the lands comparable to Arabia in size, and of all the peoples approaching the Arabs in historical interest and importance, no country and no nationality have perhaps received so little consideration and study in modern times as have Arabia and the Arabs”
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