Arabs : a 3,000-year history of peoples, tribes and empires /

This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Isl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mackintosh-Smith, Tim, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Arabs > History.
Arabic language > Social aspects.
Arabic language > Foreign countries.
Arabs > Language.
Sociolinguistics.
Arabe (Langue) > Aspect social.
Arabe (Langue) > Pays étrangers.
Sociolinguistique.
Arabes > Langage.
sociolinguistics.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Arabs
Arabic language > Social aspects
Sociolinguistics
Araber
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword. The wheel and the hourglass
  • Introduction. Gathering the word
  • Emergence: 900 BC-AD 600
  • 1. Voices from the wilderness: earliest Arabs
  • 2. Peoples and tribes: Sabaeans, Nabataeans, and nomads
  • 3. Scattered far and wide: the changing grammar of history
  • 4. On the edge of greatness: the days of the Arabs
  • Revolution: 600-630
  • 5. Revelation, revolution: Muhammad and the Qur'an
  • 6. God and Caesar: the state of Medina
  • Dominance: 630-900
  • 7. Crescaders: openings-up
  • 8. The kingdom of Damascus: Umayyad rule
  • 9. The empire of Baghdad: Abbasid sovereignty
  • Decline: 900-1350
  • 10. Counter-cultures, counter-caliphs: the empire breaks up
  • 11. The genius in the bottle: the hordes close in
  • Eclipse: 1350-1800
  • 12. Masters of the monsoon: Arabs around the Indian Ocean
  • Re-emergence: 1800-Now
  • 13. Identity rediscovered: awakenings
  • 14. The age of hope: Nasserism, Ba'thism, liberation, oil
  • 15. The age of disappointment: autocrats, Islamocrats, Anacharchs
  • Afterword. In the station of history.

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