Author: Ahmad Al-JalladPublisher: Studies in Semitic Languages a
ISBN: 9789004513693
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions: Second Revised & Expanded Edition
Author: Ahmad Al-JalladPublisher: Studies in Semitic Languages a
ISBN: 9789004513693
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions
Author: Ahmad Al-JalladPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004289828
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialects of Old Arabic attested in the Safaitic script, an Ancient North Arabian alphabet used mainly in the deserts of southern Syria and north-eastern Jordan in the pre-Islamic period. It is the first complete grammar of any Ancient North Arabian corpus, making it an important contribution to the fields of Arabic and Semitic studies. The volume covers topics in script and orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax, and contains an appendix of over 500 inscriptions and an annotated dictionary. The grammar is based on a corpus of 33,000 Safaitic inscriptions.
A Dictionary of the Safaitic Inscriptions
Author: Ahmad Al-JalladPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004400427
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
A dictionary of the Safaitic inscriptions, containing more than 1400 lemmata.
The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia
Author: Ahmad Al-JalladPublisher: Ancient Languages and Civiliza
ISBN: 9789004504264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
1. Introduction -- 2. Rites -- 3. Divinities and Their Roles in the Lives of Humans -- 4. Fate -- 5. Afterlife -- 6. Visual Representation of Deities and the Divine World -- 7. Amplification and Why Write -- 8. Worldview: A Reconstruction -- Appendix 1: Glossary of Divinities -- Appendix 2: Previously Unpublished Inscriptions -- Bibliography -- Index.
Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004500642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests is a showcase of new discoveries in an exciting and rapidly developing field: the study of the transition from Late Antiquity to Early Islam. The Arab conquests are shown to have changed both the Arabian conquerors and the conquered.
Corpus of Nabataean Aramaic-Greek Inscriptions
Author: Giuseppe PetrantoniPublisher:
ISBN: 9788869695087
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Arabia and the Arabs
Author: Robert G. HoylandPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134646348
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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.
Toponymy on the Periphery
Author: Julien CooperPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004422218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
"In Toponymy on the Periphery, Julien Charles Cooper conducts a study of the rich geographies preserved in Egyptian texts relating to the desert regions east of Egypt. These regions, filled with mines, quarries, nomadic camps, and harbours are often considered as an unimportant hinterland of the Egyptian state, but this work reveals the wide explorations and awareness Egyptians had of the Red Sea and its adjacent deserts, from the Sinai in the north to Punt in the south. The book attempts to locate many of the placenames present in Egyptian texts and analyse their etymology in light of Egyptian linguistics and the various foreign languages spoken in the adjacent deserts and distant shores of the Red Sea"--
Personal Names in the Aramaic Inscriptions of Hatra
Author: Enrico MarcatoPublisher:
ISBN: 9788869692314
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Arabic in Context
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004343040
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
The writing of Arabic’s linguistic history is by definition an interdisciplinary effort, the result of collaboration between historical linguists, epigraphists, dialectologists, and historians. The present volume seeks to catalyse a dialogue between scholars in various fields who are interested in Arabic’s past and to illustrate how much there is to be gained by looking beyond the traditional sources and methods. It contains 15 innovative studies ranging from pre-Islamic epigraphy to the modern spoken dialect, and from comparative Semitics to Middle Arabic. The combination of these perspectives hopes to stand as an important methodological intervention, encouraging a shift in the way Arabic’s linguistic history is written.