TY  - GEN
AU  -  Webb, Peter
TI  - Imagining the Arabs : : Arab identity and the rise of Islam 
SN  - 9781474426435
U1  - 320.5409174927 W381I 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Edinburgh, UK : 
PB  -  Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Arab nationalism
KW  - National characteristics, Arab
KW  - Arabism
N1  - 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
ER  -