The Arabs in antiquity : their history from the Assyrians to the Umayyads /: their history from the Assyrians to the Umayyads. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jan Retsö.
• Other Names: Retsö, Jan
• Contents: Pt. I. The remembered origins -- 1. Arabs in early Islam -- 2. Arabs as a people -- 3. The Arabs as a section of society -- 4. The neglected cousins -- 5. Arabs in the eyes of outsiders -- pt. II. The forgotten origins -- 6. The problem of the earliest Arabs -- 7. Arabs in cuneiform sources -- 8. The Old Testament and Arabia -- 9. The age of the Achaemenids -- 10. Alexander the Great and the Arabs -- 11. The heirs of Alexander -- 12. Between the Greeks and the Romans -- 13. The Nabataean problem -- 14. Arabs and Romans until the time of Trajan -- 15. Arabs in the age of the good emperors -- 16. From the Severians to Constantine the Great -- 17. The disappearing Arabs -- 18. Arabs in Talmudic sources -- 19. Arabs in South Arabia -- pt. III. The solution of an enigma? -- 20. The picture of Arabs in pre-Islamic sources -- 21. The linguistic issues -- 22. The Arabs and their religion. Summing up: the Arabs from the Assyrians to the Umayyads.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (704 pages)
• Subjects: 930/.04927; Arabs -- History; Arabs; Arabieren; Altertum; Araber; Araber; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136872891; 1136872892
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