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"Images are very important to a civilization, culture and religion because as humans people wish to have a good image. There is nothing essentially good or bad in images themselves, but only in what they portray, evoke, or justify (Siddiqi 1)." It comes as no surprise, then, that people today doubt the fact that the Arab Empire was once amongst the world's greatest civilizations. To reduce the average Arab to the images that define him today would be to dismiss the existence of an entire historical era. Like members of any living society, Arabs have adopted, amended, coveted, and rejected traditions throughout the ages. The rich history that encompasses their development began several centuries before the invention of the solar calendar, bending and shifting until it arrives at today, in which the misunderstood concept of Arab consciousness defines the tumultuous present. Early historical records date the existence of Arabs back to 854 B.C, during the Neolithic period (Bowersock 19). It wasn't until the third millennium, however, that the first urban Arab settlements are ackno
language of a cosmopolitan Islamic civilization that combined the intellectual and artistic traditions of the Persians, Romans, and Greeks. In this civilization, Arabic... was the language of literature, education, religion, and philosophy. Scholars could travel from one end of the Islamic world to the other and speak with their colleagues in Arabic, just as educated Europeans communicated with one another in Latin (Reilly 007). The communal societies of the past and the elevation of the Arabic language through Islam's golden age add much color to today's ever-changing Arab identity. In addition to a shared place in history, shared economic interests and external conflicts have also helped to shape the Arab's sense of belonging (Barakat 33). It is the results of this last factor and the conflicts of the early 20th century that most significantly impact the images of Arabs today. Though Islamic fundamentalist movements have criticized nationalism for placing loyalty to the nation before loyalty to the Islamic community, the festering wounds that resulted from direct European col
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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