Arabs from Alexander the Great until the Islamic Conquests
Subtitle: Orientalist Perceptions and Contemporary Conflicts
Publisher: Gorgias Press, LLC
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781463242855
Subjects: Asia, history
Description: "This is not a conventional history book. It is rather a study of the sociology of historical writing about a period that, although quite distant in time (330 B.C. to A.D. 670), still influences political discourse about the Arab world, and especially the relationship between the West and the Middle East. This book focuses on the riddle of the disappearance of the Arabs from history before Islam, their sudden appearance behind the banners of the Prophet, and the powerful and traumatic effect this emergence into world history has had on the relationship between the Arabs and the West"--