DeArabizing Arabia
Subtitle: Tracing Western Scholarship on the History of the Arabs and Arabic Language and Script
Publisher: Blauetopf Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780984984305
Description: A Comprehensive reference that goes beyond the sole discussion of in-depth technical research matters to benefit both experts and non-experts. This book scrutinizes mainstream and revisionist Western theories in connection with the roles played by Near East scholarship, religion, and colonialism in the formation of the current belief system, to objectively study this correlated complex topic. It deciphers key pre- and post-Islamic inscriptions, papyri, and manuscripts and studies their evidence together with the evidence presented by the scholarly work of the Islamic Arab civilization era.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Preface; title: Chapter 1: Arabia, Islam, and Western Scholarship in Perspective; title: 1.1 Religion, Colonial History, and Western Scholarship; title: 1.2 Muhammad and the Quran: A Brief Balanced Account; title: 1.3 The New Trend of Mass Media Scholarship; title: Chapter 2: The Arabs and Arabic Language: Evidence Scholars; title: 2.1 Languages and Peoples of the Peninsula: Arabic or Semitic?; title: 2.2 The Peer Review Process of Near East Scholarship; title: Chapter 3: The al-Namārah Nabataean Arabic Inscription (328 CE); title: 3.1  Introduction; title: 3.2 Historical and Geographical Overview; title: 3.3 Rereading the Umm al-Jimāl Nabataean Arabic Inscription; title: 3.4 Arabic Grammar Prelude; title: 3.5 Rereading al-Namārah Nabataean Arabic Inscription; title: 3.6 Conclusion; title: Chapter 4: The SaʿadTaʾlib Musnad Arabic Inscription (~250 CE); title: 4.1 Introduction; title: 4.2 Reading Musnad Inscriptions from Yemen; title: 4.3 Reading the SaʿadTaʾlib Musnad Arabic Inscription; title: 4.4 Conclusion; title: Chapter 5: Tracing the Arabic Script from Musnad to Jazm; title: 5.1 Introduction; title: 5.2 Early Alphabets and the Emergence of Cursive Styles; title: 5.3 Birth of Jazm Script: Pre-Islamic Arabia and its Scripts; title: 5.4 Roots of Jazm Script: Nabataean or Musnad?; title: 5.5 Inscriptions, Manuscripts, and Papyrus Overview; title: 5.6 Examining the Musnad Roots of  Jazm; title: 5.7 Conclusion