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Imagining the Arabs : Arab identity and the rise of Islam /

A new interpretation of Arab origins and the historical roots of Arab identity. Who 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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Webb, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh, UK : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part One. The Rise of Arab Communities. Imagining ancients Arabs : sources and controversies
  • Pre-Islamic 'Arabless-ness' : Arabian identities
  • Arabness from the Qur'an to an Ethos
  • Part Two. The changing faces of Arabness in early Islam. Interpreting Arabs : defining their name and constructing their family
  • Arabs as a people and arabness as an Idea: 750-900 CE
  • Philologists, 'Bedouinisation' and the 'Archetypal Arab' after the mid-third/ninth century
  • Imagining and reimaging the Arabs : Conclusions