
Arabs
A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires
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Ralph Lister
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.
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interesting and eyeopening
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As other reviewers have noted, the reader shares the same passion and appreciation for the subject as any listener would, but his efficacy is hampered by not knowing (apparently) any Arabic at all. This both helps and hurts. The reading is more smooth and natural without codeswitching, but alas. Tim's particular theory of Arabic entails extensive citation of Arabic poetry, and the listener is deprived of fully appreciating his marvelous observations.
Outstanding history. Somewhat disappointing reader
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Beautiful
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Concise yet complete history of arabs.
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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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the Unbiased facts
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this is textbook reading
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Detailed Unbiased Arab Account
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. I found following the Arab names and locations difficult. However the narrator was excellent. I just wish I had a map and written outline of the players to refer to while listening.
Long listen
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Very readable and in-depth
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