Webb, Peter <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Introduction --<br/>Part One. The Rise of Arab Communities. Imagining ancients Arabs : sources and controversies --<br/>Pre-Islamic 'Arabless-ness' : Arabian identities --<br/>Arabness from the Qur'an to an Ethos --<br/>Part Two. The changing faces of Arabness in early Islam. Interpreting Arabs : defining their name and constructing their family --<br/>Arabs as a people and arabness as an Idea: 750-900 CE --<br/>Philologists, 'Bedouinisation' and the 'Archetypal Arab' after the mid-third/ninth century --<br/>Imagining and reimaging the Arabs : Conclusions. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781474426435 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Arab nationalism.<br/>National characteristics, Arab.<br/>Arabism.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.5409174927 W381I