Format:
1 online resource (704 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781136872822
Content:
The history of the Arabs in antiquity from their earliest appearance around 853 BC until the first century of Islam, is described in this book. It traces the mention of people called Arabs in all relevant ancient sources and suggests a new interpretation of their history. It is suggested that the ancient Arabs were more a religious community than an ethnic group, which would explain why the designation 'Arab' could be easily adopted by the early Muslim tribes. The Arabs of antiquity thus resemble the early Islamic Arabs more than is usually assumed, both being united by common bonds of religious ideology and law.
Content:
Cover -- THE ARABS IN ANTIQUITY: Their history from the Assyrians to the Umayyads -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Map 1 The Arabian Pensinsula and the adjacent regions -- PREFACE -- PROLEGOMENA -- Which Arabs? -- Arabs and bedouin: present-day evidence -- Method of investigation -- Notes -- Part I THE REMEMBERED ORIGINS -- 1 ARABS IN EARLY ISLAM -- Sources -- General historical background -- The view of a medieval Muslim sociologist: Ibn Khaldūn -- The view of a medieval Muslim belletrist: al-Ğāhiz -- Notes -- 2 THE ARABS AS A PEOPLE -- arab and ağam -- arab as a nation of tribes -- The 'real' arab -- The original āriba peoples -- The language of the arab -- The land of the arab and their villages -- Excursus: the language of Quraysh -- Notes -- 3 THE ARABS AS A SECTION OF SOCIETY -- arab and Muslim -- arab and mawlā -- arab and muhāğirūn -- arab, Quraysh and the early Muslims -- arab, ansār and their successors -- The arab among the tribesmen -- Notes -- 4 THE NEGLECTED COUSINS -- The arāb -- The arāb in the Qurān -- Notes -- 5 ARABS IN THE EYES OF OUTSIDERS -- Arabs and Muslims in non-Arabic sources from the first century AH -- Arabs in the early Arabo-Islamic tradition: attempt at a summary -- Notes -- Part II THE FORGOTTEN ORIGINS -- 6 THE PROBLEM OF THE EARLIEST ARABS -- Introduction -- Pre-Islamic Arabs in modern scholarship: a short survey -- Excursus: nomadism in the Middle East -- Notes -- 7 ARABS IN CUNEIFORM SOURCES -- Syria at the beginning of the first millennium BC: sources -- Political outline -- The road to Qarqar -- Excursus: the sons of Qeturah -- Tiglath Pileser III -- Excursus: the earliest Arabs in the Old Testament -- Sargon II -- Sennacherib -- Esarhaddon -- Assurbanipal: the sources -- The course of events -- Excursus: the people of Attar-shamayin.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780700716791
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780700716791
Language:
English
Keywords:
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