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Arabs: A 3,000Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires,New
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A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstoneThis kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim MackintoshSmith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source of shared cultural identity over the millennia.MackintoshSmith reveals how linguistic developmentsfrom preIslamic poetry to the growth of script, Muhammads use of writing, and the later problems of printing Arabichave helped and hindered the progress of Arab history, and investigates how, even in todays politically fractured postArab Spring environment, Arabic itself is still a source of unity and disunity.
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