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UNINA9910792581903321 |
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Webb Peter <1978-> |
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Imagining the Arabs : Arab identity and the rise of Islam / / Peter Webb |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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1-4744-0828-1 |
1-4744-2643-3 |
1-4744-2186-5 |
1-4744-0827-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 403 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Part One. The Rise of Arab Communities -- 1. Imagining Ancient Arabs: Sources and Controversies -- 2. Pre-Islamic ‘Arabless-ness’: Arabian Identities -- 3. Arabness from the Qur’an to an Ethnos -- Part Two. The Changing Faces of Arabness in Early Islam -- 4. Interpreting Arabs: Defining their Name and Constructing their Family -- 5. Arabs as a People and Arabness as an Idea: 750–900 CE -- 6. Philologists, ‘Bedouinisation’ and the ‘Archetypal Arab’ after the Mid-Third/Ninth Century -- Imagining and Reimagining the Arabs: Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Investigating the core questions about Arab identity and history, this book tackles the time-honoured stereotypes that depict Arabs as ancient Arabian Bedouin, and reveals the stories to be a myth: tales told by Muslims to recreate the past to explain the meaning of Islam and its origins. |
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