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Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
Tim Mackintosh-Smith
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Discover the 3,000-year Arab saga that Harvard's Steven Caton called "superb." Tim Mackintosh-Smith's masterwork reveals how language, not religion, shaped Arab identity. Written amid Yemen's civil war, it sparks vital questions: why has Arab unity remained so elusive?

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When Words Became a Nation

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Three thousand years ago, in the vast deserts of Arabia, a remarkable experiment began-not in conquest or empire-building, but in language. While other civilizations defined themselves by borders, bloodlines, or gods, one people chose words as their foundation. This wasn't a conscious decision made in some ancient council chamber. Rather, it emerged organically from scattered tribes who discovered that shared eloquence could create bonds stronger than any fortress wall. The Arabic language became a living homeland, a territory that couldn't be conquered by invading armies because it existed in memory, breath, and verse. Today, a Moroccan and an Iraqi may struggle to understand each other's street conversations, yet both can read seventh-century poetry with surprising ease. This linguistic continuity across thirteen centuries and thousands of miles represents something unprecedented in human history-a civilization that lives not in a place, but in a language.

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