Rostam pasha biography of albert

Martin Kramer, “Albert Pasha,” Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2002, pp. 84-85. The article is a review of Abdulaziz A. Al-Sudairi, A Vision of the Middle East: An Intellectual Biography of Albert Hourani, published by I.B.

By the time of his death, Manchester-born Albert Hourani (1915-93) had been recognized by his guild as the doyen of Middle Eastern historical studies. From his redoubt at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, he sent out dozens of students to all four corners, bearing the Hourani gospel: “Now we are in the age of ‘social history’… within a framework of ideas derived from Marxism, or from the historians of the Annales school.” In short, Hourani became the great apostle of faddism in Middle Eastern studies, which have yet to recover.

As Al-Sudairi shows, Hourani first labored in the vineyards of intellectual history.

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