The Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads

الغلاف الأمامي
Psychology Press, 2003 - 684 من الصفحات
The history of the Arabs in antiquity from their earliest appearance around 853 BC until the first century of Islam, is described in this book. It traces the mention of people called Arabs in all relevant ancient sources and suggests a new interpretation of their history. It is suggested that the ancient Arabs were more a religious community than an ethnic group, which would explain why the designation 'Arab' could be easily adopted by the early Muslim tribes. The Arabs of antiquity thus resemble the early Islamic Arabs more than is usually assumed, both being united by common bonds of religious ideology and law.
 

المحتوى

Prolegomena
1
Method of investigation
7
Arabs as a people
24
The Arabs as a section of society
63
The neglected cousins
82
Arabs in the eyes of outsiders
96
The problem of the earliest Arabs
105
Arabs in cuneiform sources
119
Arabs and Romans until the time of Trajan
392
Arabs in South Arabia
422
Arabs in the age of the good emperors
432
From the Severians to Constantine the Great
454
The disappearing Arabs
505
Arabs in Talmudic sources
526
A final evaluation of the sources
577
Political structure
584

of the Rassam cylinder
169
The Old Testament and Arabia
212
The age of the Achaemenids
235
Alexander the Great and the Arabs
263
The heirs of Alexander
282
Between the Greeks and the Romans
329
The Nabataean problem
364
The linguistic issue
591
The Arabs and their religion
600
the Arabs from the Assyrians to the Umayyads
623
General index
668
Index locorum
680
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نبذة عن المؤلف (2003)

Jan Retso was born in Norway but has been living in Sweden for more than 40 years. He got his Ph.D form Goteborg University in 1983 and was appointed full Professor of Arabic there in 1986. His main field of work is Arabic and Semitic linguistics, especially comparative and diachronic studies where he has published two monographs and a series of articles. He has also published several articles on the history of Pre-Islamic Arabia and the ancient east.

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