Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 23192
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.3366/edinburgh/9781474408264.001.0001
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474408264
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This book is the outcome of many years of research into the history of early Arab identity, begun through a PhD at SOAS and completed during a fellowship at the Forum Transregionale Studieren. It offers a new conceptualisation of the rise and early development of Arab communities, analysing a wide array of Arabic texts from the eighth–tenth centuries CE to probe the nexus between Arabness as the identity of actual groups and an intellectual construct. Detaching Arab identity from conventional monolithic stereotypes, a model of ethnogenesis shows the Arab story as a fluid process of intellectual and social development
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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