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050	0	0	_aDS218 _b.M28 2019
100	1		_aMackintosh-Smith, Tim, _d1961- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aArabs : _ba 3,000-year history of peoples, tribes and empires / _cTim Mackintosh-Smith.
246	3	0	_aArabs, a three thousand year history of peoples, tribes and empires
260			_aNew Haven, Hartford : _bYale University Press, _c2019
300			_axxvi, 630 p. : _bill., maps ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 602-608) and index.
505	0		_aForeword : the wheel and the hourglass -- Introduction : gathering the word -- Emergence : 900 BC- AD 600 -- Revolution: 600-630 -- Dominance : 630-900 -- Decline : 900-1350 -- Eclipse : 1350-1800 -- Emergence : 1800-now -- Afterword : in the station of history -- Chronology.
505	0		_aForeword : The wheel and the hourglass -- Introduction : Gathering the word -- Emergence: 900 BC-AD 600 - Voices from the wilderness: earliest Arabs - Peoples and tribes: Sabaeans, Nabataeans, and Nomads - Scattered far and wide: the changing grammar of history - On the edge of greatness: the days of the Arabs - Revolution: 600-630 -- Revelation, revolution: Muhammad and the Qur'an - God and Caesar: the state of Medina -- Dominance: 630-900 -- Crescaders: openings-up - The kingdom of Damascus: Umayyad rule - The empire of Baghdad: Abbasid sovereignty -- Decline: 900 --1350. Counter-cultures, counter-caliphs: the empire breaks up -- The genius in the bottle: the hordes close in -- Eclipse: 1350-1800. Masters of the monsoon: Arabs around the Indian Ocean - Re-emergence: 1800-Now. Identity rediscovered: awakenings -The age of hope: Nasserism, Ba'thism, liberation, oil - The age of disappointment: autocrats, Islamocrats, Anacharchs - Afterword: In the station of history -- chronology --notes -- bibliography -- index.
650		0	_aArabs _xHistory.
650		0	_aArabic language _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aArabic language _zForeign countries.
650		0	_aArabs _xLanguage.
650		0	_aSociolinguistics.
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