Posted: January 3rd, 2016

What is the role of the Arabic language and Islam in the formation of the Arab world historically?

1. What is the ‘Arab World’?
• Can cartography (or the power of mapping) alone define ‘Arabness’?
• Is ‘Arab’ an ‘ethnos’? What is ‘ethnos’?
• How does remapping of the ‘Arab World’ necessitate re-writing of its
history?
• What is the role of the Arabic language and Islam in the formation of
the Arab world historically?
• In what ways has the history of the formation of the ‘Arab World’ as a
mappable territorial entity contributed to the definition of ‘Arabness’ today?
Refer to Week 1 and 2 reading