Review from previous edition clear, fascinating and valuable
The Guardian
stimulating ... The continuous regard paid to the development of trade and economy deserves partucular praise.
History
Professor Lewis has admirably achieved his object, notably bringing out broad economic trends
International Affairs
He writes concisely and clearly, ... a useful account of the challenges ... Read moreand crises both faced and precipitated by the Arabs in their long history.
Veronica Sen, Canberra Times
... enormously influential history ... after reading 'Gibbon on Muhammad', it is tempting to speculate that Lewis's long-standing interest in the eighteenth-century historian may have influenced his own ambition to scan grand horizons, his taste for irony and his unmistakably elegant literary style.
Robert Irwin, Middle Eastern Studies
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