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An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions
This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the Safaitic Inscriptions, covering topics in script and orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax. The volume also contains an appendix of over 500 inscriptions and an annotated dictionary.
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The Throne of Adulis : Red Sea wars on the eve of Islam
The Throne of Adulis vividly recreates the Red Sea world of Late Antiquity, transporting us back to a remote but pivotal epoch in ancient history, one that sheds light on the rise of Islam as well as the collapse of the Persian Empire.
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Assyria and the Far South
The emergence of the Arabs as significant political players was primarily owed to the large‐scale introduction of domesticated dromedary camels in southern Syria and on the Arabian Peninsula around the turn of the millennium. During its imperial phase, Assyria interacted with various states, cities, and tribes in southern Syria, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Persian Gulf region. This chapter provides a short overview of Assyro‐Arabian relations during the Neo‐Assyrian period. The overview is mostly based on the testimony of Assyrian royal inscriptions, letters, and a few other cuneiform texts. Assyrian encounters with other places in the “far south” were more peaceful and limited to trade and diplomacy. In the east, Assyrian contacts reached from Dilmun to Qade in modern Oman; in the western part of the Arabian Peninsula, the oasis town of Tema played an important role in Arabian‐Assyrian trade.
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The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea War on the Eve of Islam
[...]there are many new things in ancient history and this book introduces some of those issues to a wide audience of the people interested in Roman, Byzantine, and Middle Eastern history. [...]the last chapter in the book is an introduction into the current arguments over the character of the pre-Islamic Arab religion, advanced largely by Bowersock's Princeton colleagues Michael Cook and Patricia Crone.
Book Review
The North Arabian \Thamudic E\ Inscription from Uraynibah West
In 1984, a \"Thamudic E\" inscription was discovered at Uraynibah West, almost 35 km south of Amman in Jordan. It is of exceptional character in regard to its length, content, style, and language. An analogous rhetorical petition to the god ṣa'b and goddess Lot was also discovered at Madaba in 1996, with similar phraseology and content, which offers important parallels to the Uraynibah text (dealt with in an appendix). What is striking about both texts is that they are written completely in an early form of Old or even Classical Arabic. The date is problematic, but because of the Nabataean cultural elements embedded in the texts, we would date them to around the beginning of our era. The provenance and sophistication of these texts in the heartland of Transjordan also argues against the standard ascription of Old North Arabic \"Thamudic E\" to \"nomads\" or \"Bedouins.\"
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