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The Arabs, a short history, Heinz Halm ; translated by Allison Brown and Thomas Lampert

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-180) and index

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The Arabs

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Heinz Halm ; translated by Allison Brown and Thomas Lampert

a short history

The history of Arabia is inextricably tied to the history of Islam. The Prophet Muhammad came from Arabia, and the most important religious centers for Muslims are located in the Arab cities of Mecca and Medina. However, Arabs already had a history reaching back over one and a half millennia when Muhammad entered the stage. Since the ninth century B.C.E., they had been an integral force in determining the fate of the Middle East, establishing themselves as a major power in the seventh century C.E. and with the rise of the caliphate expanding the borders of the Arab world far beyond the Middle East into North Africa and Spain, and even into France. Since that time, Arab history has been intimately connected with European history. Medieval European arts and sciences would have been unthinkable without the brilliant culture of the Arab empire. Only in the modern era has this relationship been marked by a growing European hegemony, which continues to encumber relations between the West and the Arab world to the present day. In this volume, Heinz Halm offers a compact and comprehensible overview of the history and culture of the Arabs from the first references in the inscriptions of Assyrian kings to the most recent developments of contemporary Arab nations. -- From https://www.amazon.co.uk (April 6, 2017)

Pre-islamic Arabia -- Name and origin -- Ancient south Arabia -- Arabia in the Hellenistic period -- Arabs and Romans -- Arabia between Byzantines and Persians -- Old Arabic language, poetry, and script -- Arabia and Islam -- Arabia on the eve of Islam -- The prophet Muhammad -- The Arab-Islamic conquests -- The caliphate of the Umayyads (661-750) -- The Abbasid caliphate of Baghdad -- Al-'Arabiyya: high Arabic language and literature -- The Arab reception of antiquity -- Arabic numerals and the zero -- Arabization and Islamization -- The Mamluks -- The Arab world from 900 to 1500 A.D. -- Iraq -- Syria/Palestine -- Egypt -- The Maghreb and al-Andalus -- The Arab world from 1500 to 1800 -- The fertile crescent under Ottoman rule -- The Arabian peninsula -- Egypt -- The Maghreb -- The nineteenth century -- The Mashriq -- The Maghreb -- Strategies against European intervention: Europeanization, Islamic renewal, nationalism -- State building and independence in the twentieth century -- The first World War and the Mandatory period -- The Salafiyya and the Muslim brotherhood -- The Palestine question -- The second World War and the establishment of the Arab League -- The founding of Israel and the first Middle East war -- Ba'th party and Nasserism -- The Six-Day War (June 1967) -- The Sadat era (1970-1981): the October War, the Infitah, and the oil crisis -- The Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) and the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) -- The 1990s: the first Intifada and the Gulf War -- The beginning of the twenty-first century -- The second Intifada -- The Iraq War in 2003 -- Bibliography -- Notes on pronunciation -- Index of personal names -- Maps