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Title: Arabs by Peter Mansfield ISBN: 0-14-022561-7 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: December, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Brilliant book
Comment: If you're looking for a compact but detailed history and description of the Arab world, it's difficult to imagine a book that can top this one. I picked it off the shelf thinking it would be just another dull chronology - but when I examined its layout, I just had to have it. It consists of three sections: a detailed and highly readable 300-page history of the Arab world; a set of brief chapters on each Arab country; and a final short section on how the Arabs are viewed by both themselves and Westerners.

The ability to pick a single country to read about individually is the aspect of the book that most stands out for me: I was really interested in reading about just five or six Arab countries, and I wasn't about to buy a book on each of them. This book solved the problem brilliantly.

Rating: 5
Summary: A definitive but digestible history
Comment: I had the opportunity to meet Peter Mansfield a few times when I worked in London between 1993 and 1994, a softly-spoken and dignified man who had made it his life's work to learn about and understand the Arab World and its relationship with the colonial powers.

Sadly, Mansfield has since passed away, but this book remains as a beautiful epitaph that is as close to a definitive but digestible history of the Arab people as I've read.

Recommended for those who want to understand the big picture before getting into the detail of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Rating: 4
Summary: excellent brief but overwhelming book about the arab history
Comment: This is an excellent brief history about the arab world. Very good chapters are the chronologies of different arab dynasties and guidelines between the past and present day