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Albert hourani beginning in the 7th century, when islam began to spread from the arabian peninsula to the west, and working through to the modern. Winners of the thomas cook travel book award award. A previous work, the young turks crime against humanity. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. It received the middle east studies associations 2016 albert hourani book award, the ottoman and turkish studies associations 2016 m. Religion, society, and simple believers kindle edition by tannous, jack.
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The book was awarded the albert hourani book award for best book in middle east studies and the arnold rubin outstanding book award in african studies. We started the traveler because we loved the way our travels had opened our eyes to different ways of understanding the world. Upon finishing book 1, i immediately got book 2 and finished it over the weekend. The late albert hourani told the definitive history of the arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new religion of islam began to spread from the arabian peninsula westwards, to the present day. As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations, the middle east centre relaunched the hourani scholarship to establish an annual award for the mphil in.