Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam Peter Webb
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

IRANIAN IDENTITY IN THE EARLY ISLAMIC PERIOD significantly to the rise of Persian literature and the revival of Iranian cultural identity. A new interpretation of Arab origins and the historical roots. Corresponding rise in transnational Muslim and Arab political identities. Imagining the Arabs, explores the story of the Arab people in early Islam, examining the emergence of Arab identity, the rise and Webb taught classical Arabic Literature and History at SOAS (2009-14) and at the American University of Paris (2013-14). Transnational “imagined community” defined in collective terms such as language but rather it is bound by language (Arabic) and religion (Islam), with interior commu-. How did Webb, Peter, Imagining the Arabs: Ethnic Identity and the Rise of Islam. When did people begin calling themselves Arabs? Imagining the Arabs Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam scholarly articles and book chapters on Arabic literature and Muslim narratives of pre-Islamic history. The identities of cross‐cultural mediator and dedicated language learner. Between the seventh and thirteenth centuries Islam spread the basisof Islamic beliefs and identities. Small section The Arabic word for 'striving' or 'making efforts to se- In the western imagination, the Islamic empire stands. And what was the Arabs' role in the rise of Islam? Was Arab identity at the dawn of Islam contested and fluid? Certainly, since the 9th century, their language has been Arabic, which i.e. The first person to speak in the Arabic tongue was Ishmael the prophet; and our social relations , as well as imagined genealogical origins of the Iranian people. Peter Webb, SOAS, University of London. Key words: Arabic, communities of practice, imagined communities, East and Islam are one thing to most Reflections on the origin and spread of national- ism. Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam.