This textbook assembles key writings on the modern history of the Middle East by some of the most distinguished specialists in the field. It has been revised and now contains a range of additional material on the history of the region since the 1990s. schovat popis
Encyclopedic and panoramic in its scope, this fascinating work chronicles the rich spiritual, political, and cultural institutions of Arab history through 13 centuries.
Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939 is the most comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East. Albert Hourani studies the way in which ideas about politics and society changed during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, in response to the expanding influence of Europe. His main attention is given to the movement of ideas in Egypt and Lebanon. He shows how two streams of thought, the one aiming to restate the social principles of Islam, and the other to justify the separation of religion from politics, flowed into each other to create the Egyptian and Arab nationalisms of the present century. The last chapter of the book surveys the main tendencies of thought in the post-war years. Since its publication in 1962, this book has been regarded as a modern classic of interpretation. It was reissued by the Cambridge University Press in 1983 and has subsequently sold over 8000 copies.
Diese Sammlung von Essays konzentriert sich auf die Beziehung zwischen europäischem und islamischem Denken und Kultur vom späten achtzehnten bis zum zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Albert Hourani untersucht die Entwicklung von Ideen über den Islam im europäischen Denken und diskutiert die einzelnen Schriftsteller, die eine wichtige Rolle bei der Vermittlung eines Bildes von islamischer Geschichte und Zivilisation gespielt haben. Er beleuchtet auch einige der Reaktionen der islamischen Welt auf die mächtigen neuen Ideen der europäischen Zivilisation, einschließlich der ersten arabischen Enzyklopädie und der Übersetzung von Homer.