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Author:   Greg Fisher (Associate Professor, College of the Humanities and Department of History, Associate Professor, College of the Humanities and Department of History, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.082kg
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9780198810148

ISBN 10:   0198810148
Pages:   610
Publication Date:   26 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Copyright Notices Transliteration Conventions Leaders of Arab Dynasties and the Kingdom of Himyar Greg Fisher: Editor's Introduction 1: Michael C. A. Macdonald, with contributions from Aldo Corcella, Touraj Daryaee, Greg Fisher, Matt Gibbs, Ariel Lewin, Donata Violante, and Conor Whately: Arabs and Empires before the Sixth Century 2: Christian Julien Robin: Before Himyar: Epigraphic Evidence for the Kingdoms of South Arabia 3: Christian Julien Robin: Himyar, Aksum, and Arabia Deserta in Late Antiquity: The Epigraphic Evidence 4: Denis Genequand: The Archaeological Evidence for the Jafnids and the Nasrids 5: Peter Edwell, with contributions from Greg Fisher, Geoffrey Greatrex, Conor Whately, and Philip Wood: Arabs in the Conflict between Rome and Persia, AD 491-630 6: Greg Fisher and Philip Wood, with contributions from George Bevan, Geoffrey Greatrex, Basema Hamarneh, Peter Schadler, and Walter Ward: Arabs and Christianity 7: Zbigniew T. Fiema, Ahmad Al-Jallad, Michael C. A. Macdonald, and Laïla Nehmé: Provincia Arabia: Nabataea, the Emergence of Arabic as a Written Language, and Graeco-Arabica 8: Harry Munt, with contributions from Touraj Daryaee, Omar Edaibat, Robert Hoyland, and Isabel Toral-Niehoff: Arabic and Persian Sources for Pre-Islamic Arabia Epigraphic and Papyrological Sigla Bibliography Index of Sources General Index

Reviews

Review from previous edition [A] formidable achievement in the field of pre-Islamic Arabian studies ... It is a book that one will read with great excitement from cover to cover ... by far the best single work on pre-Islamic Arabia. Ilkka Lindstedt, Review of Qur'anic Research [An] interesting book ... [The chapters] include numerous translations and transliterations and thus provide a rich body of evidence for anyone interested in the Middle East, especially in the period called Late Antiquity in Roman history. The collection shows how multifaceted that region was in linguistic, cultural, and religious terms, something contemporary forces want people to forget. Highly recommended. M. Van De Mieroop, CHOICE Arabs and Empires Before Islam gives an excellent overview of the complexity of social, political and religious action in pre-Islamic Arabia ... especially valuable to those with an interest in ancient borderlands, empires, and people on their fringes. Hamish Cameron, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Arabs and Empires Before Islam gives an excellent overview of the complexity of social, political and religious action in pre-Islamic Arabia ... especially valuable to those with an interest in ancient borderlands, empires, and people on their fringes. * Hamish Cameron, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * [An] interesting book ... [The chapters] include numerous translations and transliterations and thus provide a rich body of evidence for anyone interested in the Middle East, especially in the period called Late Antiquity in Roman history. The collection shows how multifaceted that region was in linguistic, cultural, and religious terms, something contemporary forces want people to forget. Highly recommended. * M. Van De Mieroop, CHOICE * Review from previous edition [A] formidable achievement in the field of pre-Islamic Arabian studies ... It is a book that one will read with great excitement from cover to cover ... by far the best single work on pre-Islamic Arabia. * Ilkka Lindstedt, Review of Qur'anic Research *

Author Information

Greg Fisher is a graduate of the University of Oxford. An historian of antiquity, he is the author and editor of numerous works examining the ancient Middle East. He lives in Montreal.

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