MARONITE HISTORIANS OF MEDIEVAL LEBANON

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Special interest attaches to the traditional historiography of the Maronites, a community whose role in the intellectual and political evolution of the Middle East is out of all proportion to their numbers. In this monograph, his first major publication, Professor Kamal Salibi examines the historical literature of the Maronites, both mediaeval and modern. He describes and explains the evolving attitudes to this community to trheir ancestors and their neighbours, to Rome, to Christendom, and to their ancient homeland. This book is of value not only to students of historiography and of the Maronites, but to all who are interested the development of social and political ideas in the Middle East.