Literacy and identity in pre-Islamic Arabia
| 1. Verfasser: |
Macdonald, M. C. A.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Surrey, Eng. ; : Burlington, VT :.
Ashgate Pub.,
2009.
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 v. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Variorum collected studies series
906 |
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Table of contents |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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 penetration 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.
