Literacy and identity in pre-Islamic Arabia
by M. C. A. Macdonald
Edition 1
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Title and Author
Literacy and identity in pre-Islamic Arabia / by M. C. A. MacdonaldPublication Details
ساری : Ashgate Pub، 2009مPhysical Description
1 v. : ill., map.; 52 cm.Subject
Literacy Arabian PeninsulaArabian Peninsula History - To 622
series
(Variorum collected studies series؛ 906)Language
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface -- Literacy, language and scripts -- Literacy in an oral environment -- Nomads and the Hawran in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods : a reassessment of the epigraphic evidence -- Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia -- Ancient ethnicity -- Some reflections on epigraphy and ethnicity in the Roman Near East -- Arabians, Arabias, and the Greeks : contact and perceptions -- Les Arabes en Syrie or la pntration des Arabes en Syrie a question of perceptions -- Aspects of the history of ancient Arabia -- Was the Nabataean kingdom a Bedouin state? -- On Saracens, the Rawwfah inscription and the Roman army -- Trade routes and trade goods at the northern end of the incense road in the first millennium B.C -- Notes containing addenda and corrigenda