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Author Lewis, Bernard.

Title The Middle East : a brief history of the last 2,000 years / Bernard Lewis.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Scribner, [1995]
©1995
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  956 LEW    AVAILABLE
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Description xii, 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 394-396.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-393), chronology, and index.
Contents Antecedents. Before Christianity. Before Islam -- The dawn and noon of Islam. Origins. The 'Abbasid Caliphate. The coming of the Steppe Peoples. The Mongol aftermath. The gunpowder empires --Cross-sections. The state. The economy. The elites. The commonalty. Religion and law. Culture -- The challenge of modernity. Challenge. Change. Response and reaction. New ideas. From war to war. From freedom to freedom.
Subject Islam -- Middle east -- History.
Middle East -- History.
ISBN 0684807122
0684832801 (pbk)
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