Imagining the Arabs
Subtitle: Arab identity and the rise of Islam
By: Peter Webb
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9781474408264; 9781474426435
Subjects: Race identity; Arabs; Arab nationalism; Arab National characteristics; Arabism; Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-394) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part One. The Rise of Arab Communities. Imagining ancients Arabs : sources and controversies; title: Pre-Islamic 'Arabless-ness' : Arabian identities; title: Arabness from the Qur'an to an Ethos; title: Part Two. The changing faces of Arabness in early Islam. Interpreting Arabs : defining their name and constructing their family; title: Arabs as a people and arabness as an Idea: 750-900 CE; title: Philologists, 'Bedouinisation' and the 'Archetypal Arab' after the mid-third/ninth century; title: Imagining and reimaging the Arabs : Conclusions.