Manufacturing False Identities

Anthropologist and thinker Fadhil Al-Rubaie continues his monumental project to correct the history of the ancient Near East through "The Fabrication of False Identities." In this book, the author launches a rigorous critical assault on orientalist and colonial narratives that deliberately projected historical and religious texts onto incorrect geographies, thus creating "false identities" and invented histories serving political and expansionist agendas. Relying on linguistic comparisons of ancient Semitic inscriptions and an anthropological mapping of tribal and place names, Al-Rubaie meticulously returns historical geography to its true origins. It is a provocative, mind-stirring, and profound work that demands the rewriting of regional history based on physical evidence and ancient texts, completely stripped of contemporary ideological illusions.

To break free from prefabricated narratives regarding Near Eastern history, learning how to examine ancient inscriptions and toponomy with a critical, independent eye that exposes historical manipulation and reclaims the region's authentic identity.

For students of anthropology and ancient history, researchers focused on deconstructing orientalist and colonial discourses, and every passionate reader with the intellectual courage to reconsider historical axioms and engage with bold, controversial theories.