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Arabs - A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires (Paperback)
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Arabs - A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires (Paperback)
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List price R534
Loot Price R465
Discovery Miles 4 650
You Save R69 (13%)
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A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR "Masterly and
brilliant"-Simon Sebag Montefiore "A book of vast scope and
stunning insight."-Anthony Sattin, Spectator "Commanding erudition
and a swashbuckling style define this history of the Arabs"-Justin
Marozzi, Sunday Times This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000
years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab
peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their
language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to
the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of
Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a
thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both
spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source of shared
cultural identity over the millennia. Mackintosh-Smith reveals how
linguistic developments-from pre-Islamic poetry to the growth of
script, Muhammad's use of writing, and the later problems of
printing Arabic-have helped and hindered the progress of Arab
history, and investigates how, even in today's politically
fractured post-Arab Spring environment, Arabic itself is still a
source of unity and disunity.
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