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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some expected tanning and marking due to age. Pages are clean and bright. Cover missing. No notes or highlighting. See images. Nice copy of this book.

About the book >.>.> A bibliophile interested in the history of the Moslem East could easily fill a large library. Many great scholars who had a profound knowledge of Oriental languages have indeed written voluminous works on Arabic civilisation and the vicissitudes of the Caliphate. What justifi- cation is there for a new book on this subject? The purpose of the present book is very different from most learned treatises to be found in Western libraries. The scholars who have hitherto undertaken research into the history of the Near East in the middle ages have had recourse to the rich historical literature of the Arabs and the Persians which provides copious materials for Oriental history. But alas the old Oriental writers tell the story of the aristocracy: their books are focused on the courts of the princes and on the achievements of their armies. The Orientalists themselves with few exceptions have always been mainly interested in the spiritual life of the Moslems in Islam and in Arabic refer to social and economic