Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history, tracing the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and spread their language and culture.

Beginning more than a thousand years before Muhammad, it explores how Arabic—spoken and written—has served as a vital source of shared cultural identity, influencing unity and disunity through linguistic developments from pre-Islamic poetry to modern challenges.