ISBN:
9780300182354
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (681 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mackintosh-Smith, Tim, 1961 - Arabs
DDC:
306.442927
Keywords:
Arabic language-Social aspects
;
Regionalforschung
;
Araber
;
Geschichte
;
Politik
;
Epoche
;
Arabic language-Social aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Arabische Staaten
;
Araber
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS -- FOREWORD THE WHEEL AND THE HOURGLASS -- Maps -- INTRODUCTION GATHERING THE WORD -- ORATORS AND PREDATORS -- IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE POET -- THE WORD SPREADS -- THE BOOK OF THE STICK -- ATAURIQUE -- EMERGENCE 900 BC-AD 600 -- CHAPTER ONE VOICES FROM THE WILDERNESSE ARLIEST ARABS -- THE ISLAND OF THE ARABS -- ARABIAN LANDSCAPES -- SOWERS AND MILKERS -- DESERT AND SOWN IN DIALOGUE -- A PEOPLE APART -- LOOKING IN FROM THE OUTSIDE -- 'S1LM WAS HERE' -- BORN OF THE RIMTH BUSH -- ARABS OR 'ARAB? -- SONS OF SAM -- ARABS HAVE A WORD FOR IT (AND OFTEN VERY MANY WORDS) -- SEARCHING FOR A UNIFIED VOICE -- CHAPTER TWO PEOPLES AND TRIBES SABAEANS, NABATAEANS AND NOMADS -- 'WHEN IN ZAFAR . . .' -- THE ORIGINAL ARABS (BUT NOT JUST YET) -- PEOPLE AND PILGRIMAGE -- THE CLINCH OF CIVILIZATIONS -- CARAVAN TOWNS -- THE RECORD OF THE ARABS -- JUST THIEVES -- BORN OF THE GATHERED WIND -- 'ALL THE ARABS' -- CHAPTER THREE SCATTERED FAR AND WIDE THE CHANGING GRAMMAR OF HISTORY -- THE RAT WITH IRON TEETH -- THE ACTIVE VOICE OF HISTORY -- NO FIXED ABODE -- RIVALS IN THE GREAT GAME -- LK NW VWLZ -- THE KING'S BURIED POEMS -- THE IDENTITY WITHIN -- CHAPTER FOUR ON THE EDGE OF GREATNESS THE DAYS OF THE ARABS -- A CURTAIN FALLS - AND RISES -- GULFS APART -- WALLS AND WEAPONS OF WORDS -- THE INSTIGATORS -- THE WANDERING KING -- PUSHERS TO THE FARTHEST BOUNDS -- POLITICS AND POETICS -- IMAGINE THERE'S NO HEAVEN -- THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- VISIONS OF UNITY -- ADVENT -- REVOLUTION 600-630 -- CHAPTER FIVE REVELATION, REVOLUTION MUHAMMAD AND THE QUR'AN -- THE BLACK STONE -- THE MOTHER OF EMPORIA -- THE NAVEL OF THE EARTH -- MUHAMMAD -- RECITE! -- THE WORD MADE BOOK -- RHYME IS REASON -- AND THE WORD DWELT AMONG US, AND WE IN IT.
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