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100			_aMacdonald, M. C. A. _9497
245			_aLiteracy and identity in pre-Islamic Arabia / _cby M. C. A. Macdonald.
260			_aSurrey, Eng. ; _aBurlington, VT : _bAshgate Pub., _c2009.
300			_a1 volume : _billustrations, map ; _c25 cm
490			_aVariorum collected studies series ; 906
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aPreface -- 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.
650			_aLiteracy _zArabian Peninsula. _98297
651			_aArabian Peninsula _xHistory _yTo 622. _98298
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