1516: The Year That Changed the Middle East

Editor: Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
Provider: AUB Press
$30.00

The effects of the Ottoman conquest of Bilad al-Sham and Egypt in the spring of 1516 continue to reverberate five centuries later. The conquest and its reverberations were the themes of a conference held at the American University of Beirut in 2016. This volume includes fourteen of the conference papers by scholars of the period, each from a different school of history and region of the world. The collection considers the impact of the events that led up to, and followed, this conquest from a variety of angels, and aims to make a modest contribution to the field of Middle East history.

Editor: Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
Language: English and Arabic
Subject: Middle Eastern Studies
Number of Pages: 454
Book Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm
Cover Type: Paper Cover
ISBN: 9789953586809
Shipping Weight: 1.20 kg

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