vii, 186 pages : 25 cm With this major revision of his classic The Middle East and the West (1964), a leading Middle East historian of our time offers a definitive and now more-timely-than-ever ...

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Yet it was frequently discussed in a language that is more resonant of the Middle Ages than the scientific laboratory.