Literacy and identity in pre-Islamic Arabia
By: by M. C. A. Macdonald.
Series: Variorum collected studies series ; 906
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Surrey, Eng; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754659655
Subjects: Literacy -- Arabian Peninsula; Arabian Peninsula -- History -- To 622
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Literacy, language and scripts; title: Literacy in an oral environment; title: Nomads and the Hawran in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods : a reassessment of the epigraphic evidence; title: Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia; title: Ancient ethnicity; title: Some reflections on epigraphy and ethnicity in the Roman Near East; title: Arabians, Arabias, and the Greeks : contact and perceptions; title: Les Arabes en Syrie or la pénétration des Arabes en Syrie  a question of perceptions; title: Aspects of the history of ancient Arabia; title: Was the Nabataean kingdom a Bedouin state?; title: On Saracens, the Rawwfah inscription and the Roman army; title: Trade routes and trade goods at the northern end of the incense road in the first millennium B.C; title: Notes containing addenda and corrigenda.