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“It’s one of the earliest global histories and it places the Islamic world, from North Africa all the way to Indonesia, at the heart of global history. If you think about it, that does make sense. It’s a central, vast area of the world that is influenced by Islam in one way or another, and that is central to the making of the modern world.” Read more...
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The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah
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My Grandmother
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My Uncle Napoleon
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Girls of Riyadh
by Rajaa Alsanea -
A History of the Arab Peoples
by Albert Hourani
