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This "brief history of the last 2,000 years," by the 20th century's preeminent historian of the Islamic world, is written with its author's customary wit and gravity, sympathy and objectivity, breadth and precision.


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Robert B. Satloff, a new contributor, is the executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of From Abdullah to Hussein: Jordan in Transition (Oxford, 1994).

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