Praised for its straightforward and accessible style, this text provides a general introduction to the chief elements in Middle Eastern history, allowing readers to proceed into more specialized topics and themes with a solid understanding of the most current scholarship in the field.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Interesting and Easy Read,
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Obviously a very extensive and difficult topic to cover, I thought that the organization of the book made this book not only easy to read, but also incredibly informative. After reading the book, I felt that I had a good understanding of the history of the Middle East, the problems that have been overcome, and the issues still to be resolved. Would highly recommend.
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Good book about the Middle East,
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Excellent addition to any library. This book covers the Middle East quickly but effectively. It is written chronologically, but mainly covers the Middle East after the rise of Islam, only devoting 9 pages to pre-Islam. It does cover these areas effectively. It moves on to describe the history of the Middle East from the rise of Islam to modern times. This is an excellent reference book that gives a Bibliography page after every chapter, which there are 50 of. This will allow you to know the sources, as well as look at the sources they used for something specific, which is a great help, especially for a college research paper, etc. Overall this is a well-documented historical work, that is easy to read and gain an understanding of the Middle East.
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I am an undergrad English major who is by no means an history buff and who, prior to her Middle Eastern history class last semester, had very little knowledge of the Middle East's past. This certainly colors my perspective of this book. However, as a non-history-person, I found it dense, hard to read, and poorly organized on a sentence-and-paragraph level.
This subject is, in my opinion, far too broad to be condensed into such a (relatively) short text--it deserves volumes, not a single book. Consequently, in order to fit everything, the authors for the most part pared down the content to names, places, and dates, including very little interpretation and explanation. I, for one, found it difficult to imagine the historical Middle East based only on these bare-bones facts, so I couldn't connect with the material and, therefore, couldn't really retain any of it. Probably in consequence of the super-condensation of the content, sentences and paragraphs tended to be jumpy. There were quite a few cases in which the topic would change mid-sentence, with no warning and no apparent relation between the two topics. I found similar abrupt subject switches inter- and intra-paragraph. This last item may be nitpicking, but I did find a couple of typos and grammatical errors in the text, which (as something of a grammarian) I found highly distracting. ...But, then again, I can only speak from my perspective; the other two reviewers, who may have had more prior experience with history than I have, seemed to enjoy the book well enough. In a much more positive vein, I will say that the bibliographies at the end of every chapter were both impressive and immensely helpful--particularly if, for instance, you have to do outside readings or research.
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Since the end of World War II the term Middle East has referred to that area of the world comprising the present political states of Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the Occupied Territories, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Turkey, and Iran. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, Mehmet Ali, Great Britain, Cambridge University Press, United Nations, Abd Allah, Persian Gulf, Suez Canal, North Africa, Oxford University Press, Black Sea, Arab League, Reza Shah, Saddam Husain, Abu Bakr, Cold War, Princeton University Press, Red Sea, Columbia University Press, Abu Dhabi, King Husain, League of Nations New!
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Since the end of World War II the term Middle East has referred to that area of the world comprising the present political states of Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the Occupied Territories, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Turkey, and Iran. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, Mehmet Ali, Great Britain, Cambridge University Press, United Nations, Abd Allah, Persian Gulf, Suez Canal, North Africa, Oxford University Press, Black Sea, Arab League, Reza Shah, Saddam Husain, Abu Bakr, Cold War, Princeton University Press, Red Sea, Columbia University Press, Abu Dhabi, King Husain, League of Nations New!
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- Muslim-Christian Relations: Past, Present, Future (Faith Meets Faith) by Ovey N. Mohammed in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Middle East in the New World Order by Haifaa A. Jawad on page 117, and Back Matter
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