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Imagining the Arabs :

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1474408273

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1474408281

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9781474408271

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9781474408288

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1474408265

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9781474408264

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9781474408288 (epub)

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bc1010118

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Imagining the Arabs :

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[Book]

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Arab identity and the rise of Islam /

First Statement of Responsibility

Peter Webb.

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Edinburgh, UK :

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Edinburgh University Press,

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[2016]

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©2016

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1 online resource

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-394) and index.

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Introduction -- Part One. The Rise of Arab Communities. Imagining ancients Arabs : sources and controversies -- Pre-Islamic 'Arabless-ness' : Arabian identities -- Arabness from the Qur'an to an Ethos -- Part Two. The changing faces of Arabness in early Islam. Interpreting Arabs : defining their name and constructing their family -- Arabs as a people and arabness as an Idea: 750-900 CE -- Philologists, 'Bedouinisation' and the 'Archetypal Arab' after the mid-third/ninth century -- Imagining and reimaging the Arabs : Conclusions

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A new interpretation of Arab origins and the historical roots of Arab identity. Who are the Arabs? When did people begin calling themselves Arabs? And what was the Arabs' role in the rise of Islam? Investigating these core questions about Arab identity and history through close interpretation of pre-Islamic evidence and the extensive Arabic literary corpus in tandem with theories of identity and ethnicity prompts new answers to the riddle of Arab origins and fundamental reinterpretations of early Islamic history. It is revealed that the time-honoured stereotypes depicting Arabs as ancient Arabian Bedouin are entirely misleading: the essence of Arab identity was in fact devised by Muslims during the first centuries of Islam. Arab identity emerged and evolved as groups imagined new notions of community to suit the radically changing circumstances of life in the early Caliphate. The idea of 'the Arab' was a device used by Muslims to articulate their communal identity, to negotiate post-Conquest power relations, and to explain the rise of Islam. Over Islam's first four centuries, political elites, genealogists, poetry collectors, historians and grammarians all participated in a vibrant process of imagining and re-imagining Arab identity and history, and the sum of their works established a powerful tradition that influences Middle Eastern communities to the present day. Key features. The first sustained analysis of Arab identity through the stages of its formation and maintenance in early Islam Draws upon the full array of available Arabic language sources to illustrate Arab ethnogenesis - poetry, Qur'an, hadith, akhbĹr history, chronicles, adab, exegesis and grammatical texts

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JSTOR

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22573/ctt1bh1944

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1474408265

Arab nationalism.

Arabism.

Arabs-- Race identity.

Islam-- Arab countries.

National characteristics, Arab.

Arabs

Arabes-- Identité ethnique.

Arabes.

Arabisme.

Islam-- États arabes.

Nationalisme arabe.

Arab nationalism.

Araber

Araberbild

Arabism.

Islam

Islam.

National characteristics, Arab.

Nationenbildung

Arab countries.

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Webb, Peter

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20220520062550.0

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