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Knowledge of pre-Islam Arabia is essential for anyone seeking to understand how Islam arose and the shape it took. Further, knowledge of the cultures, commerce, and conflicts of the Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to Muhammed is fatally incomplete without the inclusion of the Arabs and the vital role they played. Arabia and the Arabs provides the only up-to-date, one volume survey of the region and its peoples during this period.
Using a wide range of sources--inscriptions, poetry, histories, and archaeological evidence--Robert Hoyland explores the main cultural areas of Arabia, from ancient Sheba in the south, to the desert oases of the north. He meticulously traces the major themes in the:
*economy
*society
*religion
*art and architecture
*language and literature
*Arabhood and Arabisation.
The text is supplemented by over 50 photographs, drawings, and maps.
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Shallow.......2007-04-01
I keep looking for books about the history of Arabs giving a pure academic point of view, unfortunately without success. This book certainely doesnot go deep intothe history of Arabia, nor of the origins of its people or the origins of people who migrated out of Arabia.
It is a big dissapointment.
elagabal ?.......2005-01-10
Why the author does not speak about the emperor Elagabal
and his black stone ?
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Despite the misleading subtitle???.......2007-08-02
Library Journal review said: Despite the misleading subtitle???
I guess the Library Journal isn't breaking any laws for lying to the people. There is nothing misleading about the title of this book. It's called the The African Origins of the Jewish People for one reason. It happens to be the truth and this book as well as The African Origin of Modern Judaism, by Jose V. Malcioln and many many others makes it very clear. Don't let them fool you!
On the search for the historical Moses.......2007-05-29
Who was the historical Moses?
Using writings from the second century BCE Egyptian priest of Thoth Manetho and some deductive reasoning, Gary Greenberg thinks he's found him.
Best known for his fascinating book 101 Bible Myths, Greenberg an attorney and amateur biblical scholar is always good reading and can always be counted on for providing interesting speculation in answering bible mysteries. His strength is bringing solid legal reasoning to biblical speculation and his weakness is bringing solid legal reasoning to biblical speculation.
This book is an excellent case in point for showing the limits of using legal reasoning to comprehend bible mysteries. Greenberg builds his case that there really was an Exodus and that it really did take place in Egypt by showing similarities between ritual practices in Judaism and those in Egyptian religion (for example, circumcision and not eating with foreigners). However circumcision was practiced far and wide in antiguity including the fijians and samoans of Polynesia, some peoples in Australia, and even among the ancient Assyrians and Phoenicians. Likewise, variant dietary practices are known and have been known not only in the west but the east as well.
Next, Greenberg looks to Manetho a second century BCE priest of Thoth assigned by Ptolemy II to write a history of Egypt from its inception to the time of Alexander the Great. In writing his history, Manetho recounted an Egyptian version of the Exodus wherein he called Moses by the name of Osarseph and placed him around the time of Ahknaten, the renegade Pharoah who suppressed all but his religion of Atenism or sun worship. According to Greenberg Moses was himself a holdover priest of Thoth who was forcibly expelled from Egypt with his followers following the downfall of Ahknaten and the discrediting of Atenism. Again, though the theory no doubt has an ostensible plausibility it flies in the face of the way ancient historians plied their task. They didn't deny the fanstastic allegations of other writers, but merely rephrased them in way to strip their opponents claim of merit. A case in point is the second/third century debate between Celsus an anti christian and Origen a Christian proponent. For his part Celsus explained Jesus' lack of a father by naming a Roman solider Pantera as being his true but historically suppressed father. This process of rephrasing a minimization was common in ancient times and was in play when Manetho recounted his version of the Exodus.
What's more, Greenberg eschewed actual biblical archeological evidence in drawing his conclusions. Specifically, he failed to acurately weigh the lack of physical evidence in appraising the fact or existence of the Exodus. This would had a big effect on his work too because there is and has been a strong concensus in the biblical archeological community respecting the lack of factual evidence for the historical occurence of the Exodus.
Despite these failings, Greenberg has still managed to produce an interesting and thought provoking book. For those interested in perhaps a similar and more thorough treatment of the Isreal in Egypt position read Israel in Egypt by James Hoffmeier.
Bible Folklore does not Render its Historical Message Void.......2005-12-31
"There's a lot of myth that contains history. There's a lot of history that's mostly myth. .. I was starting to do some independent study, and it resulted in looking at some early parts of the Bible." Gary Greenberg
Novel Old Notions:
For a curious, learned reader of a book of this genre, to know that the Hebrew Bible stories are tinted with Ancient Mideast folklore and legend, are not novel notions. Archaeologists have long emphasized that there is no physical record of many ancient locations mentioned in the Bible, while there are conflicting dating issues of some Hebrew Bible events. Egyptian roots for the 'biblical' Hebrews were mentioned by Herodotus and some other ancient historians. Recent African origins of Western Civilization debate, revived the 19th century Hebrew origins speculations. Professor T. Meek of Toronto university wrote two related books; Hebrew origins,& Primitive monotheism and the religion of Moses. (Published by Harper& Row from 1936 to 1960) Professor Jan Assmann, one of the most eminent Egyptologists wrote; The Search for God in Ancient Egypt & Moses the Egyptian, Harvard, 1997, analyzing many of the problematic issues which Greenberg argued.
Hebrews' Egyptian Rroots:
In his 'The Bible Myth: African Origins of the Jewish People,' (originally printed in 1997 as: The Moses Mystery), Greenberg repeated the arguement that there was no archaeological support for most of the stories of the Old Testament, and that no documentary evidence is founf for the Genesis accounts; Abraham journey from Ur, the four centuries of Hebrew sojourn in Egypt, the Exodus, or years of Sinai desert wandering, considering them as myths. The Hebrews' Egyptian roots which has undisputed extant ancient references, is expanded by Greenberg who supports a proposition that the Hebrews were Egyptian who followed Akhenaten's monotheism, while Moses was Aten high priest who fled Egypt, after King Akhenaten's death and the violent elimination of his religion.
Debated Biblical Accounts:
Greenberg's term of Bible Mythic Fables, in support of the literary influence of other ancient traditions, following the oral Hebrew era, and his reference to the quotations within the books of the Hebrew Bible, especially of Egyptian wisdom is supported by most Biblical scholars, and defended by many Jewish experts. Greenberg describes the Pentateuch, of today, as 'a mosaic of several ancient documentary sources, patched together, over the centuries, edited by the EJPD redactors. The Bible Creation accounts, he says are copies of older Egyptian creation myths, in one variant, Creation begins with a word from the deity Amen, just as in Genesis. The story of the Flood similarly involves suspicious resemblance to older flood myths by the Assyrians and the Egyptians. What 'is called' the Ten Commandments are commonsense prohibitions against murder, adultery, thievery, etc., quoted in several different ways, in different books of the Torah. Greenberg criticizes the whole 'confusing story' of how God gave Moses those commandments, written in stone as a good example of how it is patched-together fable. There are actually two non consistent versions of the Ten Commandments, one in Exodus, and a rather different list in Deuteronomy. The result, he claims, is that much of what you read in the Bible stories are illogical legends of contradictory rendering.
His Conclusion:
What is the grand lesson to be taken from this? The lesson, says Greenberg, basically, is to understand the book as a product of its times, attempting to explain what everybody understood to be history from a particular point of view. Greenberg allegation that, 'It's not a divinely inspired book,' comes from his narrow definition of revelation as a mechanical dictation. The Bible is not intended to be a historical record or an archeological archive. Greenberg's apology, that by exposing errors in the Bible, he is rescuing it from theologians, should be understood in the light of the former statement.
Gary Greenberg:
Greenberg, a trial lawyer, uses some of his interrogation techniques and gives a lot of attention focusing on the word: myth. In this sense, Greenberg asserts himself as a controversial biblical scholar, who while participates in related academic conferences to earn good publicity. The New York Times wrote him as an eccentric writer, while Egyptologists and biblical scholars, resented an amateur's attempt to delete the barriers between their distinct areas of scholarship.
The Biblical Archaeology Society:
Based in New York City, is a non-sectarian educational group that meets monthly to hear lectures on Ancient Egypt, and presents a number of lectures each year on aspects of ancient Near Eastern archaeology, history and literaturea. Gary Greenberg is its current president.
Old speculative story.......2005-04-27
This is an old story and uses a classical fallacy of rhetoric, namely that since the idea cant be debunked, it must be true. It is sort of like saying "the Missing link did exist but no fossil remains exist" its nice because you cant disprove it and by writing a book on it, it seems to cast doubt on something. This book wants to cast doubt on the Bible and the question of where monotheisim originated and in another retelling of a typical debunking exersize, we are told it originated with AKhanotons cult in Egypt. The problem is their is no evidence of this, just as their is almost no evidence that the Jews or Israelites or Hebrews were ever in Egypt. Its the irony that this book wants us to suspect one part of the Bible, namely the question of Sinai and the question of G-ds role with Abraham, while at the same time not questioning the authenticity of the entire Bible. How can one pick and choose? How can this book argue that the part about Sinai and the revelation is innacurate, but the part about being slaves in Egypt is true. It doesnt add up, either one accepts the Bible, or they dont, thats a matter of faith and no amount of psuedo-archeology will prove or disapprove the unprovable.
Seth J. Frantzman
Greenberg takes the Mystery out of the biblical Moses.......2002-03-25
There really IS a lot of mystery about the biblical Moses. For example,...Why did Moses even GO into the desert for 40 years????? It never made sense to me.
Mr. Greenberg postulates a reasonable answer to my question.
He postulates that Moses was the High Priest of Pharoah Akhnaten's new monotheistic religion,...Aten worship. Historians know that the old Amun worship was persecuted by Pharoah Akhnaten,...and when Akhnaten died the Amun priests returned to power once more and persecuted the Aten worshippers,...probably enslaving them.
According to Greenberg,..(in MY words) Moses went into the desert for the same reason that Ayatollah Khomeini went to France for 15 years,....Both had religio-politico reasons for being a persona non grata in his homeland.
And BOTH, after their periods of exile, RETURNED to their homelands,...but here is where their experiences diverge. Whereas the Ayatollah succeeded in re-establishing himself at home and became prominent once more,...the opposite happened to Moses. Moses returned to Egypt, where he used to be High Priest of the Aten Monotheitic religion, but faced hostility and failure,...to the extent that he once more had to leave Egypt,...this time taking his people with him saying "Let my people go."
Greenberg goes quite deeply into Egyptian history showing how the biblical Moses existed at the very same time that Akhnaten. He also mentions the lack of archelogical evidence to support the biblical story of a "Hebrew" people from Palestine having been enslaved in Egypt.
This is a very interesting book with lots of historical back-up. Unfortunately a Peter Temes of the NW Times gave the book the kind of review one would expect from someone who is not able to let go of bible stories he has known from childhood. He just summarily pooh-poohs the whole idea,...a not very intelligent approach.
I would certainly recommend buying and studying this book. It will keep you busy for quite a few nights,....that is,...if you are sufficiently open minded. :-)
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No region in the world today is more important than the Middle East: no people more misunderstood than the Arabs.In this definitive masterwork, distinguished Oxford historian Albert Hourani offers the most lucid, enlightening history ever written on the subject.From the rise of Island to the Palestinian issue, from the Prophet Mohammed to Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi.A History of the Arab Peoples chronicles the rich spiritual, political, and cultural institutions of this civilization through thirteen centuries of war, peace, literature, and religion.Lauded by authorities, encyclopedic and panoramic in its scope, here is a remarkable window on today's conflictsand on the future of a glorious and troubled land.
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Great Introduction to the Arab world.......2007-09-25
The author paints the spread of the Arab language and culture in a concise and readable way. We learn how important Islam was in the dissemination of Arab culture and people. A great book.
History living today in the Arab world.......2007-04-19
his is a very detailed account of the main tribes and leaders and social movements that shaped the foundations of the Middle East as we know it today. The index is well-developed, which will make it much easier for you to find information when you need it, and have to skim and re-skim large portions to find information about a certain region or time period. For reviews of similar books, see the resources pages at civilsociety at seedwiki
Reads more like a sociology book .......2006-06-17
The review is about the 1st edition, which I read about two months ago. If the book was organized in a temporal way, in event-by-event sense, it would be clearer as a history book i.m.o., and it would be more exciting. The author breaks down the chapters into major temporal eras, but, the sections are categorized according to social, religious etc. aspects of life, not according to the events. The author is trying to cover the Arab peoples' history in a joint, parallel manner, maybe that's why it reads like a sociology book more than a history book, which would suggest a title of "... people" instead of "peoples" (I need to note that the author starts with the story of Ibn-Khaldun, who is accepted as founder of sociology). These sections on different aspects of life repeat themselves in almost all chapters since these aspects have been similar throughout long centuries.
I also could not find details about the crusaders' wars, which must be really important in Arab history. Also, the author just skims through the era of prophet Muhammed, which is the most important era of Arabic history i.m.o. The book has lots of pictures and useful maps though, and it clearly defines the geography of the regions it is talking about.
A distinguished work.......2006-02-10
Distinguished Lebanese-American historian Albert Hourani presents this book that might seem comprehensive to the Westerners but concise to the Arabs. Hourani tries to cover most of the history of the Arab peoples, but this is certainly no easy task. He ends up quickly surveying this history.
Despite its brevity, Hourani's volume is a reference work par excellence. Hourani is well read and his book is well researched. His style is inviting even if the massive number of dates and names might discourage some people who are not familiar with the Arab region.
The book is essential for all Westerners interested in the Arabs and their region. It is history 101 for all those who are willing to embark on such an endeavor. The book is also helpful to Arabs who are not familiar with their history. Overall, the book is a good read even if it might seem academic and a bit boring as you read it.
Of course readers have to keep in mind that writing history is an objective exercise that is never free of the writer's bias. In some instance, Hourani seems to give credit to one group at the favor of another. However, this is history. It is the most probable version from the perspective of its writer.
Informative but poorly organized and biased.......2006-01-01
Albert Hourani's A History of the Arab Peoples is a widely regarded general history of the Arab world. This is too bad, since as history the book is of low quality, with significant problems of organization and, where relevant to Hourani's apparent biases, factual accuracy. It does have its redeeming elements, but on the whole is for a variety of reasons not a reliable source as a general history of the Arab world, especially for the beginner.
Being the author of a general history of the Arab world myself, before I explain why I evaluate the book negatively I would like to suggest some alternatives, lest I be accused of attacking a rival publication out of self-interest. Philip K. Hitti's The History of the Arabs is a very detailed history which runs from pre-Islamic times to the 19th century. Arthur Goldschmidt's Concise History of the Middle East covers Turkey, Iran and Israel as well as the Arab world and is well-organized for beginners. It was the first general history of the Middle East I read as an undergraduate. Bernard Lewis' The Middle East focuses more on concepts and the flow of history but is also appropriate for those without a strong background in the region.
This book was first published in 1991. This review is based on the 1992 paperback version by Warner Books.
The initial weakness of this book begins with the very first chapter; although containing 458 pages of main text, Hourani's history devotes a mere seven pages to the pre-Islamic period. This is pretty amazing, for anyone familiar with that period, since Arab history prior to Islam is roughly as long as Arab history after it. Exactly how far back Arab peoples go in history is a matter of dispute, but certainly there were people one could call "Arabians" as far back as the beginning of the first mellinnium BC, or 1,600 years prior to Muhammad. The evidence is sporadic for sure, and no writer would give it equal prominence with later times, but seven pages is pretty paltry.
One might suspect an Islamic bias here, but the problem continues in the key early periods of Islam. The life of Muhammad and his immediate successors who established the basis for the Muslim world, spanning about a half century from Muhammad's first vision to the death of his son-in-law and successor Ali, get only 11 pages. The first Arab empire, the Umayyads (661-950), gets seven pages, and the Abbasid Empire (750-circa. 945), which is usually thought of as the "Golden Age of Islam," gets only six. This means 37 pages for the first 2,000 years of Arab history, including its framing epoch, and over 400 pages for the next 1,000. This would leave the uninitiated reader entirely without much sense of proportion.
What makes this book highly unrecommended for the beginner is its weak sense of organization. The middle time period between the collapse of Abbasid authority - roughly AD 950 - and the ascendance of the Ottoman Empire over the Arab world in 1517 is intrinsically a difficult time period to understand and a more difficult one on which to write a history. This is due to the fact that rather than there being one dominant power or a few powerful states, there is instead a multiplicity of dynasties with genuine authority in some areas not extending beyond the town level with a multifarious mixture of Sunni and Shia, Arab, Persian and Turkic ruling groups, not to mention the Latin states. Hourani makes no serious attempt to help the reader keep all of it straight by moving from a chronological approach prior to 950 to a topical one. There are ten chapters covering this time period and the social history of part of the previous two periods (the Umayyads and the Abbasids). There is one chapter which discusses the major power struggles of the time. If you want to understand the relative historical roles of the Buyids, the Fatimids, the Zengids, the Ayyubids, the Mamluks and their contemporaries, read something else.
It is within these ten chapters that this book contains its major strength - its "social history," or its description of the development of the Arab world. In fact I cited Hourani on the social history sections of my own book. In this regard, Hourani really is better than the alternatives. Over 200 pages of the book is devoted to detailing various aspects of how the Arab world came to be prior to the Ottomans. So for those who have already read a general history of the Middle East or the Arab world and want a more specialized knowledge, these chapters are quite useful.
I have several objections to how this book handles a variety of issues of current interest. This book was written during a time period when there was a great emphasis on negating certain negative images of Arabs and Muslims, to the point of deemphasizing any aspect of the Arab world which might be interpreted negatively. The word "jihad" doesn't even have an entry in the index, although it is used, or perhaps, misused. On page 247, Hourani describes a traditional view stipulating that the ruler has an obligation "to pursue jihad by maintaining the strength of the kingdom's defense..." This gives a misimpression, because legally jihad has two military meanings - the defense of Muslim lands and the Muslim community's collective obligation to spread Islam through conquest. Although jihad has a spiritual as well as martial application, its use is overwhelmingly in the military context, and while Muhammad's battles probably could be described as defensive, the vast majority of military actions between that time and the 19th century involved offensive operations (the Christian counter-offensives known as the Crusades being a major exception).
More broadly, the single most influential Islamist movement of the modern age, the Wahhabis, get only a few scattered mentions, and there is no real indication of the wave of extremism which by 1991 had been felt for some time. The primary non-Islamist ideological influence, Marxism, is discussed of course, but the influence of Nazism during the 1930s and 1940s is left out. Nazi Germany is mentioned once in passing, and in the same paragraph on page 331 Palestinian leader Amin Husseini is mentioned, but it isn't mentioned that he was a strong supporter of Nazis, that he moved to Germany during the Second World War and played an active role in the Holocaust, or that despite this he was made leader of the Palestinian cause by the nascent Arab League after the war.
Hourani's account of the 1967 is incredibly inaccurate, giving the impression that Egypt engaged in some bluster and then Israel started the war. He mentions Nasser's demand that the UN clear out of the Suez Canal zone, and includes the defense pact with Jordan, but omits a key fact - the mobilization of Egyptian forces in the Sinai. Once Egypt did this, Israel had no choice but to attack, because of its small population its economy could not handle an extended mobilization, while Egypt could. Hourani also doesn't mention the statements by Arab leaders to the effect that all Jews would be wiped out in the coming war.
On the whole, this is a useful book if one already has a framework understanding of Arab history and if one understands the slant that is being presented on issues of contemporary concern. Otherwise, I do not recommend buying it.
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Maps, chronological charts, and more .......2007-03-07
The gorgeous 'World and Its Peoples' set is a top, recommended pick for any library seeking a comprehensive reference for the middle to high school grade level. Each book in the set covers a region - such as Arabian Peninsula - and offers an eye-catching, bright cover to pair with maps, contemporary photos, and plenty of detail on governments, history, politics, economics and geography. Maps, chronological charts, and more offer detailed and in-depth information perfect for any library seeking a contemporary reference profiling world peoples.
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