Arabs : a 3,000-Year history of peoples, tribes and empires / Tim Mackintosh-Smith.
By: Mackintosh-Smith, Tim
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BookPublisher: London : Yale University Press, 2019Description: xxvi, 630 p., 16 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. (b&w, col.), maps (b&w) ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780300251630.Subject(s): Arabic language -- Social aspects | Arabs -- Foreign countries | Arabs -- History| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due |
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General Shelf | English | DS 218 M158 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword: The wheel and the hourglass --
Introduction: Gathering the word --
Emergence: 900 BC-AD 600. Voices from the wilderness: earliest Arabs --
Peoples and tribes: Sabaeans, Nabataeans, and Nomads --
Scattered far and wide: the changing grammar of history --
On the edge of greatness: the days of the Arabs --
Revolution: 600-630. Revelation, revolution: Muhammad and the Qur'an --
God and Caesar: the state of Medina --
Dominance: 630-900. Crescaders: openings-up --
The kingdom of Damascus: Umayyad rule --
The empire of Baghdad: Abbasid sovereignty --
Decline: 900-1350. Counter-cultures, counter-caliphs: the empire breaks up --
The genius in the bottle: the hordes close in --
Eclipse: 1350-1800. Masters of the monsoon: Arabs around the Indian Ocean --
Re-emergence: 1800-Now. Identity rediscovered: awakenings --The age of hope: Nasserism, Ba'thism, liberation, oil --
The age of disappointment: autocrats, Islamocrats, Anacharchs --
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