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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Early Arab lives centered on the three essential realms: water, commerce, and warfare.
Chapter 3: Cultural, political, and religious advances turned disparate Arabs into a truly unified force to be reckoned with.
Chapter 4: On Muhammad’s commanding personality and the Qur’an’s compelling power, Islam expanded into an undeniably unstoppable force for centuries.
Chapter 5: While Arab armies swept across the world, internal trauma would forever deeply shape the character of Islam.
Chapter 6: Under Abbasid rule, Baghdad became an intellectual and cultural capital.
Chapter 7: A dark new era for Arabs loomed as their last great territorial empire fell.
Chapter 8: As Arab cultural influence spread across the Indian Ocean, it faced growing competition from European power and technological innovation.
Chapter 9: Across the Arab world, groups responded differently to European influence.
Chapter 10: From the high point of Nasser, today’s Arab world has descended to a nadir of despair.
Description
Arabs (2021) is a deep dive into the 3,000-year history of the people we know as Arabs. It’s an exploration of the forces that gave birth to the idea of Arabs as a group – and the forces that have kept them apart ever since.
Who Should Listen
- Lovers of a good yarn
- Those fascinated by transnational histories
- News junkies looking to go deeper