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"Illuminates the history of the Arabs before the emergence of Islam, collating nearly two hundred and fifty translated extracts from an extensive array of ancient sources. Drawn from a broad period between the eighth century BC and the Middle Ages, the sources include texts written in Greek, La...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English Ancient Greek Latin Croatian Classical Syriac |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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"Illuminates the history of the Arabs before the emergence of Islam, collating nearly two hundred and fifty translated extracts from an extensive array of ancient sources. Drawn from a broad period between the eighth century BC and the Middle Ages, the sources include texts written in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Persian, and Arabic, inscriptions in a variety of languages and alphabets, and discussions of archaeological sites from across the Near East. More than twenty international experts from the fields of archaeology, classics and ancient history, linguistics and philology, epigraphy, and art h |
| Carrier Form: | xxvii, 580 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [503]-555) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780199654529 (hardback) : 0199654522 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | DS231 |
| CLC: | K37 |
| Call Number: | K37/A658 |
| Contents: | Arabs and empires before the sixth century / Michael C.A. Macdonald, with contributions from Aldo Corcella [and six others] -- Before Ḥimyar : epigraphic evidence for the kingdoms of Saudi Arabia / Christian Julien Robin -- Ḥimyar, Aksūm, and Arabia Deserta in late antiquity : the epigraphic evidence / Christian Julien Robin -- The archaeological evidence for the Jafnids and the Naṣrids / Denis Genequand -- Arabs in the conflict between Rome and Persia, 491-630 / Peter Edwell, with contributions from Greg Fisher [and three others] -- Arabs and Christianity / Greg Fisher and Philip Wo |