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Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of People, Tribes and Empires Foo Fighters manicured gardens of the past:This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned