Albert Hourani

Albert Habib Hourani, CBE (Arabic: ألبرت حبيب حوراني Albart Ḥabīb Ḥūrānī; 31 March 1915 – 17 January 1993) was a Lebanese British historian, specialising in the history of the Middle East and Middle Eastern studies. Quotes A History of the Arab Peoples (1991) Quotes sourced from the 2nd ed. (Faber & Faber, 2005) In the seventh century the Arabs created a new world into which other peoples were drawn. In the nineteenth and twentieth, they were themselves drawn into a new world created in western Europe. This of course is too simple a way of describing a very complicated process, and the explanations of it can be too simple too. Ch. 5 Defeat goes deeper into the human soul than victory. To be in someone else’s power is a conscious experience which induces doubts about the ordering of the universe, while those who have power can forget it, or can assume that it is part of the natural order of things and invent or adopt ideas which justify their possession of it. Ch. 18 External links Category:Historians from England Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:University of Oxford faculty Category:Harvard University faculty Category:University of Pennsylvania faculty Category:People from Manchester Category:Catholics from England Category:Orientalists Category:1915 births Category:1993 deaths Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire