The key to understanding the Arab world today
- & in the future
- is unlocking its past. John Mc Hugo takes the reader on a journey through the political social & intellectual history of the Arabs from the Roman Empire right up to the present day. He covers the mission of the Prophet Muhammad the expansion of Islam medieval & modern conflicts the interaction with Western ideas the struggle to escape foreign domination the rise of Islamism & the end of the era of dictators. The concise history reveals how the Arab world came to have its present form why change was inevitable & what choices lie ahead following the Arab Spring.