Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of IslamPsychology Press, 2001 - 324 pages Long before Muhammed preached the religion of Islam, the inhabitants of his native Arabia had played an important role in world history as both merchants and warriors Arabia and the Arabs provides the only up-to-date, one-volume survey of the region and its peoples, from prehistory to the coming of Islam Using a wide range of sources - inscriptions, poetry, histories, and archaeological evidence - Robert Hoyland explores the main cultural areas of Arabia, from ancient Sheba in the south, to the deserts and oases of the north. He then examines the major themes of *the economy *society *religion *art, architecture and artefacts *language and literature *Arabhood and Arabisation The volume is illustrated with more than 50 photographs, drawings and maps. |
Table des matières
List of plates | viii |
List of maps and figures | x |
Acknowledgements | xi |
Introduction | 1 |
East Arabia | 13 |
South Arabia | 36 |
North and central Arabia | 58 |
Economy | 85 |
Religion | 139 |
Art architecture and artefacts | 167 |
Language and literature | 198 |
Arabhood and Arabisation | 229 |
Notes | 248 |
Bibliography | 256 |
316 | |
Society | 113 |
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al-Qays Allat Almaqah ancient animals Arab tribes Aram Aramaic archaeological aromatics Assyrian Athtar Bahrain Beeston Byzantine camels central Arabia century BC chief Christian clan culture Dedan deity Dilmun divine Dushara east Arabia Egypt emperor empire example frankincense funerary Gerrha Ghassan gods Greek Gulf Hadramawt Harith Hatra Hegra Himyar Himyarites honour Imru inhabitants Iran Iraq Islam Kinda king L'Arabie Labid land language Lihyan Magan Marib Mesopotamia millennium BC Minaeans modern Muhammad Mundhir Muslim myrrh Nabataeans Najran nomads offered Palmyra Palmyrene Parthian pastoralists period Persian Petra Plate Pliny pre-Islamic Arabia pre-Islamic Arabic poetry PSAS Qaryat al-Faw Qataban Qedar Quran raiding region rock Roman Rome ruler Saba Sabaean Safaitic Saracens Sasanian Sayhad script Seleucid Shabwa sixth century sources south Arabia south Arabian inscriptions southern stone Strabo Syria Syrian desert Tabari Tanukh Tayma temple territory texts Thamud tomb trade tribal Yemen