Arabs A 3 000 Year History of Peoples Tribes and Empires 1st edition by Tim Mackintosh Smith 0300182354 9780300182354

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ISBN-10 :  0300182354 

ISBN-13 :  9780300182354

Author:  Tim Mackintosh-Smith 

This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source of shared cultural identity over the millennia.
 
Mackintosh-Smith reveals how linguistic developments—from pre-Islamic poetry to the growth of script, Muhammad’s use of writing, and the later problems of printing Arabic—have helped and hindered the progress of Arab history, and investigates how, even in today’s politically fractured post–Arab Spring environment, Arabic itself is still a source of unity and disunity.

Arabs A 3 000 Year History of Peoples Tribes and Empires 1st table of contents:

1 Voices from the Wilderness: Earliest Arabs
2 Peoples and Tribes: Sabaeans, Nabataeans and Nomads
3 Scattered Far and Wide: The Changing Grammar of History
4 On the Edge of Greatness: The Days of the Arabs
Revolution: 600–630
5 Revelation, Revolution: Muhammad and the Qur’an
6 God and Caesar: The State of Medina
Dominance: 630–900
7 Crescaders: Openings-Up
8 The Kingdom of Damascus: Umayyad Rule
9 The Empire of Baghdad: Abbasid Sovereignty
Decline: 900–1350
10 Counter-Cultures, Counter-Caliphs: The Empire Breaks Up
11 The Genius in the Bottle: The Hordes Close in
Eclipse: 1350–1800
12 Masters of the Monsoon: Arabs Around the Indian Ocean
Re-Emergence: 1800–Now
13 Identity Rediscovered: Awakenings
14 The Age of Hope: Nasserism, Ba’thism, Liberation, Oil
15 The Age of Disappointment: Autocrats, Islamocrats, Anacharchs

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