M. C. A. Macdonald

Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In these studies Michael Macdonald examines the extraordinary flowering of literacy in both the settled and nomadic populations of western Arabia in the 1500 years before the birth of Islam, when a larger proportion of the population could read and write than in any other part of the ancient Near East. The scores of thousands of inscriptions and gr

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000585100
• Artikelnr.: 63374766

Autorenporträt

M.C.A. Macdonald is a Research Associate at the Oriental Institute, and a Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Part 1 Literacy, Language and Scripts: Literacy in an oral environment; Nomads and the Hawran in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: a reassessment of the epigraphic evidence; Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia. Part 2 Ancient Ethnicity: Some reflections on epigraphy and ethnicity in the Roman Near East; Arabians, Arabias, and the Greeks: contact and perceptions; 'Les Arabes en Syrie' or 'La pénétration des Arabes en Syrie': a question of perceptions?; Part 3 Aspects of the History of Ancient Arabia: Was the Nabataean kingdom a 'bedouin state'?; On Saracens, the Rawwafah inscription and the Roman army; Trade routes and trade goods at the northern end of the 'incense road' in the 1st millennium BC. Addenda and corrigenda; Index.

Rezensionen

'... this volume is a most valuable example of the kind of scholarship that generates far-reaching revisions of hitherto commonly accepted views.... Macdonald is an accomplished communicator. Plenty of common sense combined with a thorough knowledge of a vast corpus of data is what creates good scholarship. The volume is a shining example of this.' Bulletin of the Society for Arabian Studies 'The Ashgate Variorum Series is noted for its tradition of reproducing individual studies by outstanding scholars which have, regardless of the time of their original publication, perdurably improved our knowledge of many aspects of the intellectual and material cultures of the Near East and the Islamic world. The volume under review has not fallen a step behind in this hallowed tradition...this volume will lastingly serve as a historic vademecum for all those interested in the antique subject of literacy...' British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies