Imagining the Arabs : Arab identity and the rise of Islam / by Webb, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Interpreting Arabs : defining their name and constructing their family -- Arabs as a people and arabness as an Idea: 750-900 CE -- Philologists, 'Bedouinisation' and the 'Archetypal Arab' after the mid-third/ninth century -- Imagining and reimaging the Arabs : Conclusions…”
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Arabic Studies in the Netherlands : a Short History in Portraits, 1580-1950 / by Vrolijk, Arnoud

Table of Contents: “…Hendrik Albert Schultens: an Enlightened Cosmopolitan(1749-1793)4 The Nineteenth Century; Reinhart Pieter AnneDozy: the opinionated polemicist (1820-1883); Michaël Jan de Goeje: the amiable philologist (1836-1909); 5 The Modern Period; Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje: an Islamologistin the service of the colonies(1857-1936); Arent Jan Wensinck: the encyclopaedist (1882-1939); Johannes Hendrik Kramers: the translator of the Koran (1891-1951); Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.…”
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