The Erasure of Arab Political Identity by Salam Hawa. Author Salam Hawa. Title The Erasure of Arab Political Identity. The book outlines the political culture that existed before Islam, examines how the Conquests and the rule of the early dynasties (Umayyad and Abbasid) of the Islamic world found it necessary to override it, and analyses the effect of rule by non-Arabs – successively Mamluks, Ottoman Turks and Western colonial powers.
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