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Imagining the Arabs :

Webb, Peter

Imagining the Arabs : Arab identity and the rise of Islam / Arab identity and the rise of Islam Peter Webb - Edinburgh, UK : Edinburgh University Press, 2017 - ix, 403 pages ; 25 cm

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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Arab nationalism.
National characteristics, Arab.
Arabism.

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