Out of Arabia: Phoenicians, Arabs, and the Discovery of Europe

Out of Arabia: Phoenicians, Arabs, and the Discovery of Europe (Asia in Europe and the Making of the West)
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Arab history is often viewed as beginning with Islam. But the Arabs have a long history stretching back millenia-and it is one intimately bound up with European history and identity. The Arabs' forbears, the Phoenicians, were exploring the coasts of England and West Africa and colonizing much of Spain, Sicily and North Africa in the early first millennium BC. The Arabs were to continue this tradition of world penetration long before the European "Age of Expansion." Islam, therefore, was as much a culmination as a beginning. The arrival of the Arabs in Spain in 711 and the subsequent continuation of Islam's first Caliphate in Cordoba after a second one had been established in Baghdad-not to mention Emirates in the Balearics, Sicily and southern Italy, and further penetration throughout much of Italy, France and Switzerland-can only be understood as part of a process that had already been underway for several thousands of years.

Phoenicians and Arabs form a part of European history that is both European and Asiatic, a part that defines and makes Europe what it is-cultures that can no more be excluded from Europe than the Viking, Roman or Greek. Europe has been engaged in a complex relationship with the Arabs and their immediate forbears throughout its history. This richly illustrated book is an account of that relationship.
Country USA
Brand Olive Branch Press
Manufacturer Olive Branch Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2010-01-03
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781566568012

Country	USA
Brand	Olive Branch Press
Manufacturer	Olive Branch Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2010-01-03
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781566568012

Out of Arabia: Phoenicians, Arabs, and the Discovery of Europe (Asia in Europe and the Making of the West)

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