Imagining the Arabs : : Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam / / Peter Webb.
A new interpretation of Arab origins and the historical roots of Arab identityWho are the Arabs? When did people begin calling themselves Arabs? And what was the Arabs' role in the rise of Islam? Investigating these core questions about Arab identity and history through close interpretation of...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part One. The Rise of Arab Communities
- 1. Imagining Ancient Arabs: Sources and Controversies
- 2. Pre-Islamic 'Arabless-ness': Arabian Identities
- 3. Arabness from the Qur'an to an Ethnos
- Part Two. The Changing Faces of Arabness in Early Islam
- 4. Interpreting Arabs: Defining their Name and Constructing their Family
- 5. Arabs as a People and Arabness as an Idea: 750-900 CE
- 6. Philologists, 'Bedouinisation' and the 'Archetypal Arab' after the Mid-Third/Ninth Century
- Imagining and Reimagining the Arabs: Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index