User talk:Hisham1000

Hisham1000

Arabian Peninsula/ Arabistan

Your rationale for blanking the section on medieval history 'Your sources are obvious forgeries' is erroneous. They are from published works by fairly well known authors and journalists.

Jeffries was a British Arabist who published the first English translations of the McMahon-Hussein correspondence. He was The Daily Mail, Dublin, correspondent and helped found the Palestine Information Center. His book, Palestine: The Reality, was the subject of a favorable review in The American Historical Review, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Oct., 1940), pp. 146-148 published by the American Historical Society (available via JSTOR).

Butrus al-Bustani was a leading Arab nationalist who published two newspapaers, assisted the American University in Beirut with their Arabic translation of the Bible, and edited the first Arab Encyclopedia. Antun Saadeh was a Syrian nationalist who disagreed with al-Bustani's political views. The editor of Antun Sa'adeh: The Man, His Thought: an Anthology is Dr. Adel Beshara. He is a professor of history at Melbourne University, Australia.

Stanford J. Shaw was a Jewish historian see [[Category:Jewish historians]] who taught Ottoman history at Harvard and UCLA and was the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. His observations about the Provincial Army for Arabistan, its headquarters and area of responsibility, were published by Cambridge University Press.

In any event, you could have readily verified the citations and quotes by simply following the links I had provided on the Talk:Arabian Peninsula page to the online versions at books.google.com harlan (talk) 19:11, 5 October 2008 (UTC)