Dreaming of Damascus

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John Murray 2004 Heftet

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A thousand years ago, a vast Arab empire stretched from the Asian steppe across the Mediterranean to Spain, pioneering new technologies, sciences, art and culture. Arab traders and Arab currencies dominated the global economy the way Western multinationals and the dollar do today. Now, Arab states are in decay. Official corruption and ineptitude have eroded state authority and created a vacuum that militant Islam - with its schools, hospitals and other civil services - has rushed to fill.Stephen Glain distils his experience as the "Wall Street Journal's" Middle East correspondent into a poignant and intimate account of how the Arab world - once the spearhead of what we call globalization - may collapse in the absence of badly needed reform. He takes us on a journey through the heart of what were once the great Islamic caliphates, the countries now known as Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Egypt, to illustrate how a once-prosperous and enlightened civilization finds itself at a crossroad between Dark Age and New Dawn.

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A thousand years ago, a vast Arab empire stretched from the Asian steppe across the Mediterranean to Spain, pioneering new technologies, sciences, art and culture. Arab traders and Arab currencies dominated the global economy the way Western multinationals and the dollar do today. Now, Arab states are in decay. Official corruption and ineptitude have eroded state authority and created a vacuum that militant Islam - with its schools, hospitals and other civil services - has rushed to fill.Stephen Glain distils his experience as the "Wall Street Journal's" Middle East correspondent into a poignant and intimate account of how the Arab world - once the spearhead of what we call globalization - may collapse in the absence of badly needed reform. He takes us on a journey through the heart of what were once the great Islamic caliphates, the countries now known as Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Egypt, to illustrate how a once-prosperous and enlightened civilization finds itself at a crossroad between Dark Age and New Dawn.

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Forlag John Murray

Utgivelsesår 2004

Format Heftet

ISBN13 9780719555480

EAN 9780719555480

Omtalt sted Midtøsten

Språk Engelsk

Utgave 1

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