An Urbane Scholar in a Wilderness of Tigers
Robert Irwin: Albert Hourani, 25 January 2001
A Vision of the Middle East: An Intellectual Biography of Albert Hourani
by Abdulaziz Al-Sudairi.
Tauris, 221 pp., £12.99, January 2000,9781860645815 Show More
by Abdulaziz Al-Sudairi.
Tauris, 221 pp., £12.99, January 2000,
“... a matter of tutorial supervisions, university committees and tea parties for his students. Abdulaziz Sudairi is only briefly concerned with the edifying but unexciting externals: A Vision of the Middle East deals rather with the life of the mind. Intellectual biography was a genre of which Hourani approved. He especially admired Ernst Gombrich’s ... ”
