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Albert Hourani

Born

in Manchester, The United Kingdom

March 31, 1915

Died

January 17, 1993

Genre

History, Nonfiction

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Hourani was born the son of immigrants from South Lebanon. He studied Philosophy, Politics, Economics and History (with an emphasis on international relations)at the Magdalen College in Oxford. He graduated first in his class in 1936. During World War II, he worked at the Royal Institute of International Affairs and in the office of the British Minister of State in Cairo. After the war he helped prepare the Arab case for the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry.

In 1948 he started teaching at Magdalen College, St. Antony's College, the start of an academic career which would last the rest of his life. He also taught at the American University of Beirut, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard, ending his academi ...more

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	A History of the Arab Peoples 3.87 avg rating — 4,280 ratings — published 1991 — 114 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798 -1939 4.14 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 1962 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	الشرق الأوسط الحديث - المجلد الأول by Albert Hourani (editor), Philip S. Khoury (editor), Mary C. Wilson (editor) 3.93 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Islam in European Thought 3.78 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1991 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	تاريخ الشعوب العربية: الجزء الأول by Albert Hourani, ألبرت حوراني, نبيل صلاح الدين (ترجمة) 3.58 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	الشرق الأوسط الحديث - المجلد الثاني by Albert Hourani (editor), Philip S. Khoury (editor), Mary Wilson (editor) 3.57 avg rating — 28 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Emergence of the Modern Middle East 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1981 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Europe and the Middle East really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Minorities in the Arab World 3.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1947 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lebanese and the World: A Century of Emigration by Albert Hourani (editor), Nadim Shehadi (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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الشرق الأوسط الحديث (1 book)
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Philip S. Khoury (editor),

Mary C. Wilson (editor),

أسعد صقر (مترجم)

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“We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign people. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing if higher value than truth itself”
― Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples

tags: seeking-truth, truth, value, worldliness-worldview

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“In the seventh century the Arabs created a new world into which other peoples were drawn. In the nineteenth and twentieth, they were themselves drawn into a new world created in western Europe.”
― Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples

tags: arabs, history

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“Defeat goes deeper into the human soul than victory. To be in someone else's power is a conscious experience which induces doubts about the ordering of the universe, while those who have power can forget it, or can assume that it is part of the natural order of things, and invent or adopt ideas which justify they possession of it.”
― Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples

tags: colonialism, imperialism, power

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