Peter Webb, Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam

Peter Webb, Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam

Peter Webb’s Imagining the Arabs re-examines the relationship between the advent of Islam and the emergence of the Arabs. Turning much received wisdom on its head, he argues that there was no homogenous Arab people that lived in pre-Islamic Arabia to whom Muhammad delivered his message. Rather, he...

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Main Author: Philip Wood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2017-11-01
Series:Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā
Online Access:https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/article/view/7003
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