Title:
Literacy and identity in pre-Islamic Arabia / by M. C. A. Macdonald.
Variorum collected studies series ;
Collected studies ;
Author:
Macdonald, M. C. A.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 pâenâetration 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.
Publisher:
Ashgate Pub.,
Publication Place:
Surrey, Eng. ; Burlington, VT :
ISBN:
9780754659655 (hbk.)
Subject:
Literacy -- Arabian Peninsula.
Arabian Peninsula -- History -- To 622.
Series:
Variorum collected studies series ; CS906
Collected studies ; CS906.
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 pâenâetration 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.
Physical Description:
Various pagings. : ill., map ;
Electronic Location:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip082/2007041412.html
Publication Date:
c2009.
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