The shaping of the Arabs : a study in ethnic identity /

Carmichael, Joel,

The shaping of the Arabs : a study in ethnic identity / Joel Carmichael. - London : Routledge, (c)2016. - 1 online resource - Routledge library editions. Society of the Middle East ; 19 .

Includes bibliographical references.

This book, first published in 1969, brings out clearly and concisely the complex moulding of Arab identity. The present-day Arabic-speaking peoples may be traced back to the Arabian tribes that were later to be shaped into a people by Islam. With the Muslim conquests the language of the Arabian tribes became the vernacular of a vast cosmopolitan society extending throughout the Middle East and Southern Mediterranean.



9781000113334 9781003071532


Arabs.
Islamic civilization.
National characteristics, Arab.


Electronic Books.

DS38 / .S537 2016