Name: An Analysis of Albert Hourani's a History of the Arab Peoples
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Author: Brown ; Gibson, Bryan
ISBN: 9781912302642

portada An Analysis of Albert Hourani's a History of the Arab Peoples

Type

Physical Book

Author

Dan Brown

Bryan Gibson

Publisher

Macat Library

Language

Inglés

Pages

108

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.0 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781912302642

Edition No.

Synopsis "An Analysis of Albert Hourani's a History of the Arab Peoples"

Few works of history make as well-structured a case for the importance of studying continuity, rather than change, than Albert Hourani's A History of the Arab Peoples. Hourani's work had three major aims: to refute the idea that Arab society stagnated between 1000 and 1800; to study the period through the lens of diverse Arab, rather than Muslim, history; and to stress intellectual and cultural continuity. All of these intentions were the product of the author's evaluation of a great mass of secondary sources, many of them devoted to arguing for ideas that contradicted his, and it demanded considerable skill to synthesize from them a coherent and well-evidenced counter-argument. Hourani was able to do this largely because his grasp of the relevance and adequacy of his predecessors' arguments was second to none; his achievement lies in his ability to reject the reasoning of other historians while still making good use of their evidence. In this task, he was aided by an interpretative skill almost equal to his powers of evaluation; A History of the Arab Peoples is also a monument to the importance of properly understanding the meaning of available evidence.

Dan Brown

(Author)

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Dan Brown ha vendido más de 234 millones de ejemplares de su obra en todo el mundo y sus libros han sido traducidos a 56 idiomas. Es el autor de grandes best sellers internacionales como El código Da Vinci, que a día de hoy sigue siendo el libro más vendido en español con más de ocho millones de ejemplares, Origen, Inferno, El símbolo perdido, Ángeles y demonios, La conspiración y Fortaleza digital.

Es licenciado del Amherst College y de la Phillips Exeter Academy, donde fue profesor antes de dedicarse por completo a la escritura. Vive en Nueva Inglaterra. Puedes seguir su trabajo en www.danbrown.com y @authordanbrown.

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