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Arabs

A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires

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By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
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A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone

This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source of shared cultural identity over the millennia.

Mackintosh-Smith reveals how linguistic developments - from pre-Islamic poetry to the growth of script, Muhammad's use of writing, and the later problems of printing Arabic - have helped and hindered the progress of Arab history, and investigates how, even in today's politically fractured post-Arab Spring environment, Arabic itself is still a source of unity and disunity.

©2019 Tim Mackintosh-Smith (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Middle East Islam World Thought-Provoking Ancient Iran Africa
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Comprehensive Historical Coverage • Linguistic Insights • Excellent Narration • Cultural Depth • Scholarly Research

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I was after hard facts on history of Arabs I found something much different, yet very rewarding.

This is not a book about the past. Those are refexions of a man that is seeng the history very much alive, manifesting itself out of his window in form of the Yemeni civil war. It is the fruit of a great effort to make sense of a tragedy affecting the Arabs, in light of 3000 years that passed but never really went away. It's inteligent, sensible and dramatic. A great book.

Reflexion and Sensibity

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Statight facts and History which is unbiased, which is extremely difficult to find in an extremely biased and confused world.

the Unbiased facts

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this is not a light read, and unless you know something about what he is talking about you will find this a bit of a challenge. I learned, but it's not good for an audible experience.

this is textbook reading

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The boos is amazing. Author has a grip over contextual historical narrative thanks to calling Yemen his Adaptive land. The details are extraordinary. Story angle could have been better if author hadn’t jumped from present to past or future. A book worth reading though.

Detailed Unbiased Arab Account

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Tim has a deep understanding of the Arab culture and language. He dives deep and connects the history of the Arabs with insight and meaning. Most histories about the Arabs only take a superficial look at the Arabs from only just before the advent of Islam. Tim takes it back to the Seventh Century BCE shedding light on a much deeper culture. Although he neglects to link the Arab history back to the Phoenicians, Canaanites, Assyrians, Hatties, Ancient Egyptians and Sumerians. But in the end it is a truly insightful book. It was a pleasure to read it.
Ahmad

The best book about Arabs ever to be written.

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