Literacy and identity in pre-Islamic Arabia /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Surrey, Eng. ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Variorum,
c2009
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| Series: | Variorum collected studies series ;
906 |
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Table of 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 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