The Arabs : a short history by Halm, Heinz, 1942-, Brown, Allison (Translator); Lampert, Tom, 1962-; Yarbrough, Luke B; Zinger, Oded instant download

The Arabs : a short history by Halm, Heinz, 1942-, Brown, Allison (Translator); Lampert, Tom, 1962-; Yarbrough, Luke B; Zinger, Oded instant download

xi, 344 pages : 23 cm, The Arabs, Heinz Halm's masterful narrative, is now available in two versions: as a general reader and introductory text for college courses (see page 3), and now, in an expanded version with a new 160-page annotated appendix of primary sources. The new source appendix, edited by Luke Yarborough and Oded Zinger, greatly enhances the text's value for teachers as well as for general readers. Some 40 primary source readings--ranging from Spain to Iraq, from classical antiquity to the 2011 Arab Spring, and from poetry and scripture to medieval economics and travelogue--provide a classroom-ready component for courses in history, area studies, and religious studies. Several of the readings occur here for the first time in translation; all have been chosen to give vivid and representative accounts of the Arabs history as told by those who experienced it. Taken together, they offer readers a glimpse into the vast, richly textured mosaic of texts that have been generated by and about the Arabs, and encourage further exploration -- from publisher, Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-338) and index, Pre-Islamic Arabia -- Arabia and Islam -- The Arab world from 900 to 1500 CE -- The Arab world from 1500 to 1800 CE -- The nineteenth century -- State building and independence in the twentieth century -- The beginning of the twenty-first century