Nosemonkey’s Reviews > Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires > Status Update

"Mohammed's life straddles the precise midpoint of recorded Arab history" - sadly, though, coming only a quarter of the way through this fascinating book. This first bit has been rammed with things I didn't know, providing valuable context that (if I recall) was missing from Albert Hourani's classic A History of the Arab Peoples, which I first read some 30 years ago...