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Mespopotamian Mathematics

 

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Mespopotamian Mathematics

Arabs did not exist during Mesopotamia, but Persian Indo-Europeans were there, too. They were Semitic, but so were the Hittites, Phoenicians, Sumerians, and Babylonians.

 

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Arabs did not exist during Mesopotamia, but Persian Indo-Europeans were there, too. They were Semitic, but so were the Hittites, Phoenicians, Sumerians, and Babylonians.

Absolutely correct. I guess eventually after many centuries of Arab conquests, these groups all started speaking Arabic, except the Persians and their cultural offshoots further afield, who already had their strong cultures.

 

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Egyptians promoted the idea of Arab identity during Nasser. We all know that throughout history, in Hijaz, there is only tribal culture, and Egyptians did not preserve the Pharaohan Egyptian religions, culture, or language. After the Mongol conquest of the Abbasids, Turkic Mongols converted to Islam and Persianized themselves. These Persianized Turkic-Mongols Turkish-Mongols controlled the Middle East until the Ottoman defeat in World War I in 1918. Persianized Turkic Mongols also established the Moghul empire in India.
We speak English in Pakistan due to British imperialism in our country for 150 years, which doesn't make us English people.

 

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Tracing the Construction of Arab Identity in Medieval Iraq

Jessica Mutter reviews Peter Webb's Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam
Who is an Arab? Earlier this year a handful of articles were published about the discovery of Arab ancestry through genetic testing, including one titled "DNA Analysis Proves Arabs Aren't Entirely Arab." Data from National Geographic's Genographic Project showed that sampled Egyptians were only 17% "Arabian" on average, while Kuwaitis were 84% Arabian, Lebanese 44%, Iranians 56%, and Tunisians 4%.
Genealogy and ancestry have always fascinated keepers of cultural and ethnic identity, and scholars of Arab history and literature are no exceptions. Let us leave aside questions of how National Geographic defined Arabian ancestry and zoom back some 1500 years. How might the great pre-Islamic Arabic poet Imru' al-Qays have responded to this study of "Arabness," or the percentage of Arabian ancestry among the cohort who sent their DNA to the Genographic Project? What would the scion of 'Abbasid poetry, al-Mutanabbī, have said? We might imagine both lauding the genealogical endurance and spread of Arab stock. You can read the book Tracing the Construction of Arab Identity in Medieval Iraq.

Tracing the Construction of Arab Identity in Medieval Iraq | The Marginalia Review of Books

Jessica Mutter reviews Peter Webb’s Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam Who is an Arab? Earlier this year a handful

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