دانلود کتاب Arabs: a 3,000-year history of peoples, tribes and empires

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Foreword: The wheel and the hourglass --
Introduction: Gathering the word --
Emergence: 900 BC-AD 600. Voices from the wilderness: earliest Arabs --
Peoples and tribes: Sabaeans, Nabataeans, and Nomads --
Scattered far and wide: the changing grammar of history --
On the edge of greatness: the days of the Arabs --
Revolution: 600-630. Revelation, revolution: Muhammad and the Qur\'an --
God and Caesar: the state of Medina --
Dominance: 630-900. Crescaders: openings-up --
The kingdom of Damascus: Umayyad rule --
The empire of Baghdad: Abbasid sovereignty --
Decline: 900-1350. Counter-cultures, counter-caliphs: the empire breaks up --
The genius in the bottle: the hordes close in --
Eclipse: 1350-1800. Masters of the monsoon: Arabs around the Indian Ocean --
Re-emergence: 1800-Now. Identity rediscovered: awakenings --
The age of hope: Nasserism, Ba\'thism, liberation, oil --
The age of disappointment: autocrats, Islamocrats, Anacharchs --
Afterword: In the station of history --
Chronology.