Imagining the Arabs

Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam

• Author(s): Peter Webb,
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Pages: 0
• ISBN_10: 1474421865
  ISBN_13: 9781474421867
  
• Language: en

Description:... Investigating the core questions about Arab identity and history, this book tackles the time-honoured stereotypes that depict Arabs as ancient Arabian bedouin, and reveals the stories to be a myth: tales told by Muslims to recreate the past to explain the meaning of Islam and its origins.