A History of the Arab Peoples, Albert Hourani. Published by the Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1991.
8vo up to 9½” tall., 551pp. with maps, genealogies, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles. In fine condition and housed in a jacket with the lightest of shelf wear.
A History of the Arab Peoples covers not only political history, but also culture, society, economy and thought, in a work of profound and lasting importance. A magnificent display of the late Albert Hourani’s lifetime of scholarship.
