Redefining history on pre-Islamic accounts
Subtitle: the Arabic recension of the Martyrs of Najrân
By: by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Piscataway, N.J
Language: eng
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical framework of the events; title: Text setting; title: Contents and structure; title: At the start of the account: the need for a context; title: The persecution of the Najranites: martyrdoms and burning of the city; title: The punitive Axamite attack against the Jewish ruler in the South Arabian land; title: A story within the story; title: Back to the fray; title: The re-christianization of Saba and Najran; title: A new stylite.