Read both...

Submitted by abdal malik (United States), Jul 28, 2005 at 13:23

Pipes says, "If you want to understand the Arabs, stay clear of Albert Hourani's apologetic. Instead, Read Bernard Lewis's The Arabs in History..." Why not read both books, Hourani and Lewis?

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