| Description |
xiii, 684 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Pt. I. The remembered origins. 1. Arabs in early Islam. 2. Arabs as a people. 3. The Arabs as a section of society. 4. The neglected cousins. 5. Arabs in the eyes of outsiders -- Pt. II. The forgotten origins. 6. The problem of the earliest Arabs. 7. Arabs in cuneiform sources. 8. The Old Testament and Arabia. 9. The age of the Achaemenids. 10. Alexander the Great and the Arabs. 11. The heirs of Alexander. 12. Between the Greeks and the Romans. 13. The Nabataean problem. 14. Arabs and Romans until the time of Trajan. 15. Arabs in the age of the good emperors. 16. From the Severians to Constantine the Great. 17. The disappearing Arabs. 18. Arabs in Talmudic sources. 19. Arabs in South Arabia -- Pt. III. The solution of an enigma? 20. The picture of Arabs in pre-Islamic sources. 21. The linguistic issues. 22. The Arabs and their religion -- Summing up: the Arabs from the Assyrians to the Umayyads |
| Analysis |
Árabes Historia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 627-667) and index |
| Subject |
Arabs -- History.
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| LC no. |
2002068318 |
| ISBN |
0700716793 hardcover |
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