8vo. 160 pp., Arabic text, publisher’s original wrappers, biblio, small red stamp on title page, previous owner’s inscription verso lower cover, otherwise copy clean & in very good condition, Zayed Center for Heritage ad History, UAE, first edition, 2001.

Synopsis

The book highlights the Arabs’ status and their cultural and political role, according to Russian and Soviet references and how the Russian & Soviet Orientalists addressed it in their studies, which had a clear social profile up until the Russian & Soviet Imperial occupation of the region, but then gradually faded. [Introduction].