Valentina A. Grasso (Washington DC Catholic University of America)

Pre-Islamic Arabia

Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities During Late Antiquity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Full study of the interactions of cultures in pre-Islamic Arabia. Investigates the cultural milieu where the inhabitants of the peninsula lived and connects the neglected socio-political, religious and economic history of Arabia with its surroundings in order to construct a coherent historical narrative out of our fragmentary sources.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781009252966
• ISBN-10: 1009252968
• Artikelnr.: 66158924

Autorenporträt

VALENTINA A. GRASSO is an Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of America. She was previously Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, and an affiliate member of the ERC project 'The Qur'an as a Source for Late Antiquity'.

Inhaltsangabe

1. An introduction to the study of Pre-Islamic Arabia; 2. North Arabia between the late third and the fifth century: borders and conversions; 3. A Late Antique Kingdom's conversion: Jews and sympathizers in South Arabia; 4. The shape of the sixth century I: the South; 5. The shape of the sixth century II: the North; 6. The
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Islam: narratives and frameworks re-examined.