Literacy and identity in pre-Islamic Arabia /

Main Author: Macdonald, M. C. A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Surrey, Eng. ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Variorum, c2009
Series:Variorum collected studies series ; 906
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300 |a 1 v. (various pagings). :   |b ill., map ;   |c 25 cm 
490 1 |a Variorum collected studies series ;   |v 906 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 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 pénétration 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 
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