Arabs : a 3,000-year history of peoples, tribes and empires / Tim Mackintosh-Smith.
Mackintosh-Smith, Tim, 1961- author.
2019
DS2018 .M33 2019eb
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Title Arabs : a 3,000-year history of peoples, tribes and empires / Tim Mackintosh-Smith.
Author Mackintosh-Smith, Tim, 1961- author.
ISBN 9780300182354 (electronic book)
030018235X (electronic book)
9780300180282
0300180284
Published New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2019]
Copyright ©2019
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 630 pages) : illustrations, maps
Call Number DS2018 .M33 2019eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 939.4-956
Summary 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.
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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Foreword. The wheel and the hourglass
Introduction. Gathering the word
Emergence: 900 BC-AD 600
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
Afterword. In the station of history.

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