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Imagining the Arabs : Arab identity and the rise of Islam / / Peter Webb



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Autore: Webb Peter <1978-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Imagining the Arabs : Arab identity and the rise of Islam / / Peter Webb Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 403 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 320.5409174927
Soggetto topico: Arab nationalism
Classificazione: NK 4100
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Imagining the Arabs  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4744-0828-1
1-4744-2643-3
1-4744-2186-5
1-4744-0827-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811409103321
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