Albert Hourani wrote history of the Middle East, Arab intellectual life and the relationship between the Arab world and modern Europe. A History of the Arab Peoples provides a broad narrative from the rise of Islam through the Ottoman period and into the modern nation-state era, while Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age examines nineteenth- and early twentieth-century thinkers responding to reform, nationalism and European influence. Hourani's prose is measured and synthetic, designed to connect political, religious and intellectual history. The strongest audience overlap is with readers of Middle Eastern history, Arab nationalism and modern Islamic intellectual history. Read more Less
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