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ajiss-865	Hughes, Aaron W.	Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam By Peter Webb (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. 416 pages.)	2017.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1473	51	51	He works on the hypothesis that since modern Arabs are heterogeneous and impossible to define using tidy categories, why do we continue to assume that pre-modern Arabs were any different? It was only under the early Umayyads, Webb argues, that the purity of Qur’anic ‘arabī was converted into an ethnonym to refer to a new ethnic group, al-a‘rāb, that could make sense of itself and that would help distin- guish this group from other groups in a post-conquest religious community (p. 124).	cache/ajiss-865.pdf	txt/ajiss-865.txt