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Arabs : a 3,000-year history of peoples, tribes and empires / Tim Mackintosh-Smith.
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Mackintosh-Smith, Tim, 1961-
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English
Published/Created
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
©2019
Description
xxvi, 630 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
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DS218 .M325 2019
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Arabs
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History
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Arabic language
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Social aspects
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Arabic language
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Foreign countries
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Summary note
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 602-608) and index.
Contents
Foreword : the wheel and the hourglass
Introduction : gathering the word
Emergence: 900 BC- AD 600
Revolution: 600-630
Dominance: 630-900
Decline: 900-1350
Eclipse: 1350-1800
Emergence: 1800-now
Afterword : in the station of history
Chronology.
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Arabs, a three thousand year history of peoples, tribes and empires
ISBN
9780300180282 ((hardcover))
0300180284 ((hardcover))
9780300251630 ((paperback))
0300251637 ((paperback))
LCCN
2018968579
OCLC
1048940075
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