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Index
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations and Maps
Foreword The Wheel and the Hourglass
Introduction Gathering the Word
Emergence: 900 BC–AD
1 Voices from the Wilderness: Earliest Arabs
2 Peoples and Tribes: Sabaeans, Nabataeans and Nomads
3 Scattered Far and Wide: The Changing Grammar of History
4 On the Edge of Greatness: The Days of the Arabs
Revolution: 600–630
5 Revelation, Revolution: Muhammad and the Qur’an
6 God and Caesar: The State of Medina
Dominance: 630–900
7 Crescaders: Openings-Up
8 The Kingdom of Damascus: Umayyad Rule
9 The Empire of Baghdad: Abbasid Sovereignty
Decline: 900–1350
10 Counter-Cultures, Counter-Caliphs: The Empire Breaks Up
11 The Genius in the Bottle: The Hordes Close in
Eclipse: 1350–1800
12 Masters of the Monsoon: Arabs Around the Indian Ocean
Re-Emergence: 1800–Now
13 Identity Rediscovered: Awakenings
14 The Age of Hope: Nasserism, Ba’thism, Liberation, Oil
15 The Age of Disappointment: Autocrats, Islamocrats, Anacharchs
Afterword In the Station of History
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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