8vo. x, 406 pp., publisher’s original wrappers, biblio, index, copy in mint condition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, reprint, 1998.

Synopsis

The book is a comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East. Albert Hourani studies the way in which ideas about politics and society changed during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, in response to the expanding influence of Europe. His main attention is given to the movement of ideas in Egypt and Lebanon.