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Without losing sight of its relationship to the grand themes of world history, Hourani describes in A History of the Arab Peoples the expansion of monotheism and the Arabic language, whose imprint is so deeply etched in the Spanish language, as well as the creation of the powerful Ottoman Empire and its disintegration, the expansion of European trade during the nineteenth century, the rise of nationalisms and nation-states, the transformation of Arab culture as a consequence of new influences, and the reaffirmation of Islamic identity in recent times.