Literacy and identity in pre-Islamic Arabia. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: M.C.A. Macdonald.
• Authors: Macdonald, M. C. A
• Contents: Contents: Preface; Part 1 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. Part 2 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?; Part 3 Aspects of the History of Ancient Arabia: Was the Nabataean kingdom a 'bedouin state'?; On Saracens, the Rawwafah inscription and the Roman army; Trade routes and trade goods at the northern end of the 'incense road' in the 1st millennium BC. Addenda and corrigenda; Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 939.49; Arabian Peninsula -- History -- To 622
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000585247
• Related ISBNs: 9781000585100; 9781003278818
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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