History of Syria : including Lebanon and Palestine
History
xxv, 749 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, maps (1 folded) ; 23 cm
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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 Semitic 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
Arab administration
The orthodox caliphate
Muʻāwiyah establishes the Umayyad caliphate
Hostile relations with the Byzantines
Domestic disturebances : Shīʻtes, Medinese, Persians
The glory that was Damascus
Poitical and social conditions under the Umayyads
Higher aspects of life unde the Umayyads
The Syrian Christian church
Fall of the Umattad dynasty
Syria an ʻAbbāsid province
Syrian contribution to Arab renaissance
Syria an adjunct of minor states
Between Saljūqs and Fātịmids
Meeting of east and west : the crusades
Cultural interaction
Ayyūbids and Mamlūks
Syria a Turkish province
The ma'ns and the Shihābs : lords of Lebenon
The contemporary scene