The Shaping of the Arabs: A Study in Ethnic Identity

By Joel Carmichael

Book Overview

This book, first published in 1969, brings out clearly and concisely the complex moulding of Arab identity. The present-day Arabic-speaking peoples may be traced back to the Arabian tribes that were later to be shaped into a people by Islam. With the Muslim conquests the language of the Arabian tribes became the vernacular of a vast cosmopolitan

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138642177
• ISBN13: 9781138642171
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 418 Pages