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Arabs and empires before Islam / edited by Greg Fisher.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabs--History--To 622.
- Arabs.
- Middle East--History--To 1500.
- Middle East.
- Middle East--History--To 1500--Sources.
- Middle East--Civilization--To 1500.
- Middle East--Civilization--To 1500--Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (625 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Arabs and Empires before Islam' collates nearly 250 translated extracts from an extensive array of ancient sources which, from a variety of different perspectives, illuminate the history of the Arabs before the emergence of Islam. These sources are drawn from a broad period from the eighth century BC to the Middle Ages, and 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.
- 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 Wood, with contributions from George Bevan [and four others]
- Provincia Arabia : Nabataea, the emergence of Arabic as a written language, and Graeco-Arabica / Zbigniew T. Fiema, Ahmad Al-Jallad, Michael C.A. Macdonald, and Laïla Nehmé
- Arabic and Persian sources for pre-Islamic Arabia / Harry Munt, with contributions from Touraj Daryaee [and three others].
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 7, 2015).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-180143-7
- 0-19-105699-5
- OCLC:
- 921188636
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