History of Syria

Macmillan & Co.

1951

749 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Place in history -- Metal implements -- The setting of the stage -- Physical environment -- The advent of semites -- The amorites: First major semitic community in Syria -- The Canaanites: Second major semitic people in Syria -- Maritime activity and colonial Expansion -- Literature, Religion and other aspects of cultural life -- International relations: Egypt -- The Aramaeans: The third major semitic people -- The Hebrew people -- The Hebrew monarchy -- Aspects of cultural and spiritual life: Monotheism -- Under persian rule -- From the sematic era to the Indo-European -- Alexander and his successors, The Seleucids -- The Hellenistic age -- Seleucid Institutions -- Trade and Industry -- Syria as a Roman province: The pre-empire period -- Under the early Roman emperors -- City and country life -- Intellectual Activity -- The rise of Christianity -- Syrianizing versus Romanizing -- Byzantine Syria -- An Ecclesiastical age -- Pre-Islamic Syro-Arab States -- Syria in the embrace of Islam -- Between Saljuqs and Fatimids -- Meeting of east and west: The crusades -- Cultural Interaction -- Ayyubids Mamluks -- Syria a Turkish province -- The ma'ns and the Shihabs: Lords of Lebenon -- The contemporary scene.

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