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

• Autore: Webb Peter <1978->
• 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
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II