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020			_a9781474426435
040			_cIGNOU Library
082			_223 _a320.5409174927 W381I
100			_a Webb, Peter _eauthor _913643
245			_aImagining the Arabs : _bArab identity and the rise of Islam / _cPeter Webb
246			_aArab identity and the rise of Islam
260			_b Edinburgh University Press, _c2017 _aEdinburgh, UK :
300			_aix, 403 pages ; _c25 cm
505			_aIntroduction -- 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.
650			_aArab nationalism. _913644
650			_aNational characteristics, Arab. _913645
650			_aArabism. _913646
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