Part 1: The Rise of Arab Communities 1. The Rise of Arab Communities I. Arabs and pre-Islamic Textual Traditions II. Arabs in Arabia: ethnogenesis, interpretations and problems III. An Arabness pretence: pre-Islamic 'Arab'-cognates reconsidered
2. Pre-Islamic 'Arabless-ness': Arabian Identities I. The Arabic Language: a signpost to Arabness? II. The search for Arabs in pre-Islamic poetry III. Contextualising the 'Arabless' Poetry: ethnic boundaries in pre-Islamic Arabia IV. The rise of 'Arab' poetry V. Transition from 'Ma'add' to 'Arab': case study of Dhu Qar VI. Pre-Islamic Arabian identity: conclusions
3. Arabness from the Qur'an to an ethnos I. 'Arab': an ethnonym resurrected? II. The Qur'an and Arabness III. Early Islam and the genesis of Arab identity
Part Two: The Changing Faces of Arabness in Early Islam 4. Interpreting Arabs: defining their name and constructing their family I. 'Arab' defined II. Arabness and contested lineage III. Arab genealogy reconsidered: kinship, gender and identity IV. The creation of 'traditional' Arab genealogy V. Defining Arabs: conclusions
5. Arabs as a people and Arabness as an idea: 750-900 CE I. Arabs in the early Abbasid Caliphate (132-193/750-809) II. Forging an Iraqi 'Arab Past'; III. al-Jahiliyya and imagining pre-Islamic Arabs IV. Arabs and Arabia: changing relationships in the third/ninth century
6. Philologists, 'Bedouinisation' and the 'Archetypal Arab' after the mid-third/ninth century I. Philologists and Arabness: changing conceptions of Arabic between the late second/eighth and fourth/tenth centuries II. The transformation of Arabness into Bedouin-ness III. Bedouin Arabness and the emergence of a Jahiliyya archetype IV. Conclusions; Imagining and Reimagining the Arabs
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