Becoming Arab : the formation of Arab identity in the medieval Middle East /
"How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities, and formed village clans. During the later Middle Ages, peasants in Egypt and Greater Syria came to view themselves as members of Arab clans that had originated in the Arabian Peninsula. They expressed their Arab ident...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Protection, Tax-Collection, and New Rural Elites, 960-1070
- The Rural Arabs of the Twelfth Century : 'Urbān and Beduini
- Village Clans in the Fayyum, 1245
- The Village Clans of the Palestinian Highlands
- Administrative Categories and Self-Identity
- Popular Epics and Arab Identity
- The Syrian Blood Feuds of Qays and Yaman
- The Great Arab Rebellions, 1250-1350
- Arab Ruling Families in the Egyptian Provinces, 1350-1517.