Arabs in History - Softcover

Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies, and Long-Term Member of the Institute for Advance Study, Princeton University. He has published numerous books on the Middle East, including, The Assassins, Race and Slavery in the Middle East: A Historical Enquiry, and The Middle East.

"Review from previous edition clear, fascinating and valuable"--The Guardian

"stimulating ... The continuous regard paid to the development of trade and economy deserves partucular praise."--History

"Professor Lewis has admirably achieved his object, notably bringing out broad economic trends"--International Affairs

"... enormously influential history ... after reading 'Gibbon on Muhammad', it is tempting to speculate that Lewis's long-standing interest in the eighteenth-century historian may have influenced his own ambition to scan grand horizons, his taste for irony and his unmistakably elegant literary style."--Robert Irwin, Middle Eastern Studies