Arabs and Empires before Islam
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (754 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198810148 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 608 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Highly recommended." --CHOICE. ".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." --CHOICE".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. Highly recommended." --CHOICE"a formidable achievement in the field of pre-Islamic Arabian studiesIt is a book that one will read with great excitement from cover to coverby far the best singl
Drawn from a broad period between the eighth century BC and the Middle Ages, the sources include texts originally written in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Persian, and Arabic, inscriptions in a variety of languages and alphabets, and discussions of archaeological sites from across the Near East. More than twenty international experts from the fields of archaeology, classics and ancient history, linguistics and philology, epigraphy, and art history provide detailed commentary on and analysis of this diverse selection of material. Arabs and Empir
An historian of antiquity, he is the author and editor of numerous works examining the ancient Middle East. He lives in Montreal.. Greg Fisher is a graduate of the University of Oxford and a Fulbright scholar