Concise Encyclopaedia of Arabic Civilization: The Arab West

Covers ". . . the cultural, social, economic and political aspects . . . [and] the issues, events and ideas, the achievements of its thinkers and the actions of its leading figures . . . [and] the principal driving forces behind the evolution of the countries in the Arab west or Maghrib - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. There has also been embodied, though without entering into details, the Arab era in the Iberian Peninsula . . .".