Literacy and identity in pre-Islamic Arabia /
Macdonald, M. C. A.
Literacy and identity in pre-Islamic Arabia / by M. C. A. Macdonald. - Surrey, Eng. ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2009. - 1 volume : illustrations, map ; 25 cm - Variorum collected studies series ; 906 .
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 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.
9780754659655
Literacy--Arabian Peninsula.
Arabian Peninsula--History--To 622.
939.49 M145L
Literacy and identity in pre-Islamic Arabia / by M. C. A. Macdonald. - Surrey, Eng. ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2009. - 1 volume : illustrations, map ; 25 cm - Variorum collected studies series ; 906 .
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 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.
9780754659655
Literacy--Arabian Peninsula.
Arabian Peninsula--History--To 622.
939.49 M145L