5. Arabs as a People and Arabness as an Idea: 750–900 CE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Note on the Text ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. The Rise of Arab Communities
7. 1. Imagining Ancient Arabs: Sources and Controversies 23
8. 2. Pre-Islamic ‘Arabless-ness’: Arabian Identities 60
9. 3. Arabness from the Qur’an to an Ethnos 110
10. Part Two. The Changing Faces of Arabness in Early Islam
11. 4. Interpreting Arabs: Defining their Name and Constructing their Family 177
12. 5. Arabs as a People and Arabness as an Idea: 750–900 CE 240
13. 6. Philologists, ‘Bedouinisation’ and the ‘Archetypal Arab’ after the Mid-Third/Ninth Century 294
14. Imagining and Reimagining the Arabs: Conclusions 352
15. Bibliography 361
16. Index 395