8vo. xiv 385 pp, cloth in d/w, 4 b/w plates, end paper maps, notes, biblio, index, from the Arab background series, Editor Prof Dr N. Ziadeh; Longman & Librairie du Liban, Second edition, 1979.

Synopsis

“The impression made by the Arabs, the reactions of the Europeans and some of the ideas that they shared with the Arabs, so far as is possible in contemporary words”. (Sleeve note.)