TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mackintosh-Smith,Tim
TI  - Arabs: a 3,000-year history of peoples, tribes and empires 
SN  - 9780300251630
AV  - DS 218 .M28 2019
U1  - 909.04927 21
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Arabs
KW  - History
KW  - Arabic language
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Foreign countries
KW  - Language
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Araber
KW  - gnd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 602-608) and index.0; Foreword : the wheel and the hourglass -- Introduction : gathering the word -- Emergence : 900 BC- AD 600 -- Revolution: 600-630 -- Dominance : 630-900 -- Decline : 900-1350 -- Eclipse : 1350-1800 -- Emergence : 1800-now -- Afterword : in the station of history -- Chronology.0; 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 -- Afterword: In the station of history.
ER  -