00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862467109 Buklod 20230830151436.0 m | | ta 230830s2003 nyuabf rb |||1 u|eng d 9780684832807 (Pbk) 0684832801 (Pbk) (iLib)UPBAG-00045494689 OLC BAG rda eng DS 62 L49 2003 Lewis, Bernard 1916- author. The Middle East a brief history of the last 2,000 years Bernard Lewis. First Scribner trade paperback edition. New York, NY Scribner 2003. ©1995. xii, 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations, maps 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Originally published: Great Britain : Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-396) and index. 1. Before Christianity -- 2. Before Islam -- 3. Origins -- 4. The 'Abbasid Caliphate -- 5. The coming of the Steppe peoples -- 6. The Mongol aftermath -- 7. The gunpowder empires -- 8. The state -- 9. The economy -- 10. The elites -- 11. The commonalty -- 12. Religion and law -- 13. Culture -- 14. Challenge -- 15. Change -- 16. Response and reaction-- 17. New ideas -- 18. From war to war -- 19. From freedom to freedom. Charts the successive transformations of the Middle East; details the forces that have shaped the history of the region: the Islamic religion and legal system; the traditions of government; the immense variety of trade and the wide range of crops; the elites--military, commercial, religious, intellectual and artistic--and the commonality, including such socially distinct groups as slaves, women, and non-believers. Middle East History. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN DS 62 L49 2003 Book