A History of the Middle East Since the Rise of Islam: From the Prophet Muhammad to the 21st Century

by Lesch and David W. Lesch

As David Lesch writes in his Preface, "Historians are a kind of secular priesthood, seemingly endowed with the power and means to select what is and what is not important for the rest of us." In A History of the Middle East Since the Rise of Islam, Lesch focuses on the longue dur e. Choosing the rise of Islam as the general beginning point of his one-volume history of the Middle East, Lesch argues that there is an indelible link between the rise of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197587143
• ISBN13: 9780197587140
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"