Imagining the Arabs Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam

A new interpretation of Arab origins and the historical roots of Arab identityWho are the Arabs? When did people begin calling themselves Arabs? And what was the Arabs' role in the rise of Islam? Investigating these core questions about Arab identity and history through close interpretation of...

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A new interpretation of Arab origins and the historical roots of Arab identityWho are the Arabs? When did people begin calling themselves Arabs? And what was the Arabs' role in the rise of Islam? Investigating these core questions about Arab identity and history through close interpretation of pre-Islamic evidence and the extensive Arabic literary corpus in tandem with theories of identity and ethnicity prompts new answers to the riddle of Arab origins and fundamental reinterpretations of early Islamic history.It is revealed that the time-honoured stereotypes depicting Arabs as ancient Arabian Bedouin are entirely misleading: the essence of Arab identity was in fact devised by Muslims during the first centuries of Islam. Arab identity emerged and evolved as groups imagined new notions of community to suit the radically changing circumstances of life in the early Caliphate. The idea of 'the Arab' was a device used by Muslims to articulate their communal identity, to negotiate post-Conquest power relations, and to explain the rise of Islam. Over Islam's first four centuries, political elites, genealogists, poetry collectors, historians and grammarians all participated in a vibrant process of imagining and re-imagining Arab identity and history, and the sum of their works established a powerful tradition that influences Middle Eastern communities to the present day.Key featuresThe first sustained analysis of Arab identity through the stages of its formation and maintenance in early IslamDraws upon the full array of available Arabic language sources to illustrate Arab ethnogenesis - poetry, Qur'an, hadith, akhbār history, chronicles, adab, exegesis and grammatical texts
In English
Islamic Studies
HISTORY / Middle East / General bisacsh
Arab nationalism
Arabism
Arabs Civilization
Arabs Ethnic identity
Arabs History
Arabs Race identity
Ethnicity Arab countries
Islam History
Islam Origin
Islam Arab countries
National characteristics, Arab
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Arab nationalism
Arabism
Arabs Civilization
Arabs Ethnic identity
Arabs History
Arabs Race identity
Ethnicity Arab countries
Islam History
Islam Origin
Islam Arab countries
National characteristics, Arab
title Imagining the Arabs Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam
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title_short Imagining the Arabs
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Arabism
Arabs Civilization
Arabs Ethnic identity
Arabs History
Arabs Race identity
Ethnicity Arab countries
Islam History
Islam Origin
Islam Arab countries
National characteristics, Arab
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