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A brief history of the Middle East : from Abraham to Arafat

Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more powerful. It took another three hundred centuries for the West to catch up, and overtake, the Middle East. Why does it seem different now? Why does Osama bin Laden see 1918, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, as the year everything changed? These issues are explained in historical detail here, in a way that deliberately seeks to go behind the rhetoric to t.

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  • "A fully updated history of the Middle East with a new section on the Iraq Invasion of 2003, the question of Iran and the full context of the Israeli/ Palestine conflict. This is an essential introduction for anyone who wants an understanding of the Middle East and the origins of its conflicts."
  • "Offers a history of the Middle East, and explains the connection between some of today's international crises and events that originated in the region."
  • "Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more powerful. It took another three hundred centuries for the West to catch up, and overtake, the Middle East. Why does it seem different now? Why does Osama bin Laden see 1918, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, as the year everything changed? These issues are explained in historical detail here, in a way that deliberately seeks to go behind the rhetoric to t."@en

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