TY  - BOOK
AU  - Macdonald,M.C.A.
TI  - Literacy and identity in pre-Islamic Arabia
T2  - Variorum collected studies series ; 906
SN  - 9780754659655
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Surrey, Eng., Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate Pub.
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Arabian Peninsula
KW  - History
KW  - To 622
N1  - Fakulti Teknologi Kreatif & Warisan; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -