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alusur-7003	Wood, Philip	Peter Webb, Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam	2017	6	.pdf	application/pdf	3253	111	49	It was not simply a period of ungodly impiety for all writers, and he emphasizes the degree to which authors like al-Balādhurī recognized a nobility among pre-Islamic Arabs that anticipates the cultural competition between their (alleged) descendants and non-Arab Muslims (268). Turning much received wisdom on its head, he argues that there was no homogenous Arab people that lived in pre-Islamic Arabia to whom Muhammad delivered his message.	cache/alusur-7003.pdf	txt/alusur-7003.txt