Macdonald, M. C. A. <br/><br/>
Literacy and identity in pre-Islamic Arabia / 
by M. C. A. Macdonald. 
 - Surrey, Eng. ;  Burlington, VT :  Ashgate Pub.,  c2009. 
 - 1 v. :  ill., map ;  25 cm. 
 - Variorum collected studies series ; 906 .
<br/><br/> Fakulti Teknologi Kreatif & Warisan 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Preface -- 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 -- 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 -- Aspects of the history of ancient Arabia -- Was the Nabataean kingdom a Bedouin state? -- On Saracens, the Rawwfah inscription and the Roman army -- Trade routes and trade goods at the northern end of the incense road in the first millennium B.C -- Notes containing addenda and corrigenda. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780754659655 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literacy--Arabian Peninsula.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Arabian Peninsula--History--To 622.