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EAN : 9782707151438
Code sériel : 266
Shaping : POCHE
Pages : 196
Size : 125 x 190 mm
A History of the Middle-East

Release date : 11/10/2007

Georges Corm's work on contemporary Middle-East and the relationship between Europe and the East is now essential reading. This concise, vivid picture of the history of the Middle-East from Antiquity, and before Islam is a reminder of what he calls the « geology of cultures ». So as to paint...

Georges Corm's work on contemporary Middle-East and the relationship between Europe and the East is now essential reading. This concise, vivid picture of the history of the Middle-East from Antiquity, and before Islam is a reminder of what he calls the « geology of cultures ». So as to paint a true picture in all its complexity of this part of the world at the crossroads of three continents, Georges Corm looks at the « geographical foundations » on which these empires were built: Anatolian, Iranian and Mesopotamian, Egyptian. Such an approach avoids confusion between people with separate languages but in constant interaction: Iranians, Turks and Arabs, now part of the « Islamic world ». The unfortunate dynamics of the relationship between West and Middle-East, and the decline of this region in the past two centuries, are here clearly and objectively explained, taking into account social and economic factors usually overlooked in studies of Islam and the Muslim world.

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EAN : 9782707151438
Code sériel : 266
Shaping : POCHE
Pages : 196
Size : 125 x 190 mm
La Découverte