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Article: In a Sea of Knowledge: British Arabists in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
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- The Middle East
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- June 1, 2003
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by Leslie Mcloughlin published by Ithaca press ISBN 0 86372 2881 price 29.95 [pounds sterling] hardback
This book appears at a time when the United Kingdom is heavily involved in the first war of the 21st century, a war of the most direct concern to all Arabs and Muslims.
No country on earth can match the United Kingdom for the concentration of Arab-world expertise and for opportunities to study the Arabs and the Arabic language. How did this come about?
This book looks at the remarkable story of British Arabists from ...