History of The Arabs
10th Edition
Published on 26. September 2002
Book
Hardback
XXIII, 822 pages
978-0-333-63141-6 (ISBN)
Description
This authoritative study of the Arabians and the Arabic-speaking peoples is a work of great thoroughness and insight which contains much to satisfy general readers as well as scholars. Here is the story of the rise of Islam in the Middle Ages, its conquests, its empire, its time of greatness and of decay, unrolling one of the richest and most instructive panoramas in history. For this reissue of the tenth edition, Walid Khalidi gives a brief overview of the history and content of the book, and emphasises the vital importance of Philip K. Hitti's magisterial and scholarly work to on-going attempts to bridge the Arab/Western cultural divide.
This accessible text is ideal not only for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Arabic and Islamic studies, but also for the general reader and many scholars in various fields of history.
This accessible text is ideal not only for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Arabic and Islamic studies, but also for the general reader and many scholars in various fields of history.
Reviews / Votes
'The outstanding quality and merit of Professor Hitti's book is the abundance and facility of its references to original and primary sources, and the richness of atmosphere in which every page is steeped.' - New York Times 'Philip Hitti's splendid masterwork...[is] an essential purchase for all our libraries...' - David Sasha, Sepharic Heritage UpdateMore details
Edition
10th ed. 2002
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 49 mm
Weight
1197 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-63141-6 (9780333631416)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-03982-8
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Philip K. Hitti
History of the Arabs
Book
01/1960
10th Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
€24.79
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Person
PHILIP K. HITTI was born in Lebanon in 1886 and from 1913 til his death in 1978 lived for the most part in USA, teaching first at Columbia and later at Princeton, from which he retired in 1954 as Professor of Semitic Literature and Chairman of the Department of Oriental Languages.
Content
Preface to the Revised Tenth Edition; W.Khalidi.- Preface to the Tenth Edition.- Preface to the First Edition.- PART I: THE PRE-ISLAMIC WORLD.- The Arabs as Semites: Arabia the Cradle of the Semitic Race.- The Arabian Peninsular.- Bedouin Life.- Early International Relations.- The Sabaean and other States of South Arabia.- The Nabataean and other Petty Kingdoms of North and Central Arabia.- Al-Hijaz on the Eve of the Rise of Islam.- PART II: THE RISE OF ISLAM AND THE CALIPHAL STATE.- Muhammad the Prophet of Allah.- The Koran the Book of Allah.- Islam the Religion of Submission to the Will of Allah.- Period of Conquest, Expansion and Colonization, A.D. 632-61.- The Conquest of Syria.- Al-'Iraq and Persia Conquered.- Egypt, Tripolis and Barqah Acquired.- The Administration of the New Possessions.- The Struggle between 'Ali and Mu'awiyah for the Caliphate.- PART III: THE UMAYYAD AND 'ABBASID EMPIRES.- The Umayyad Caliphate: Mu'awiyah Establishes a Dynasty.- Hostile Reactions with the Byzantines.- The Zenith of Umayyad Power.- Political Administration and Social Conditions under the Umayyads.- Intellectual Aspects of Life under the Umayyads.- Decline and Fall of the Umayyad Dynasty.- The Establishment of the 'Abbasid Dynasty.- The Golden Prime of the 'Abbasids.- The 'Abbasid State.- 'Abbasid Society.- Scientific and Literary Progress.- Education.- The Development of Fine Arts.- Moslem Sects.- The Caliphate Dismembered: Petty Dynasties in the West.- Sundry Dynasties in the East.- The Collapse of the 'Abbasid Caliphate.- PART IV: THE ARABS IN EUROPE: SPAIN AND SICILY.- Conquest of Spain.- The Umayyad Amirate in Spain.- Civil Disturbances.- The Umayyad Caliphate of Cordova.- Political, Economic and Educational Institutions.- Petty States: Fall of Granada.- Intellectual Contributions.- Art and Architecture.- In Sicily.- PART V: THE LAST OF THE MEDIEVAL MOSLEM STATES.- A Shi'ite Caliphate in Egypt: The Fatimids.- Life in Fatimid Egypt.- Military Contacts between East and West: The Crusades.- Cultural Contacts.- The Mamluks, Last Medieval Dynasty of Arab World.- Intellectual and Artistic Activity.- The End of Mamluk Rule.- PART VI: OTTOMAN RULE AND INDEPENDENCE.- The Arab Lands as Turkish Provinces.- Egypt and the Arab Crescent.- The Changing Scene: Impact of the West.- Index