A History of the Modern Middle East
Edition: 3rd edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: July 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9780813340470
Subjects: Middle East; History - General History; Middle East - General; ASIA; Asian / Middle Eastern history; 1517-; History
First sentence: On the eve of the rise of Islam, the settled lands of the Middle East were ruled by two competing imperial states, the Roman-Byzantine Empire in the west and the Sasanian Empire of Iran in the east.