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Arabs and Empires
before Islam
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GREG FISHER
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Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Copyright Notices
Transliteration Conventions
Leaders of Arab Dynasties and the Kingdom of Ḥimyar
Editor’s Introduction
Greg Fisher
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1. Arabs and Empires before the Sixth Century
Michael C. A. Macdonald, with contributions from Aldo Corcella,
Touraj Daryaee, Greg Fisher, Matt Gibbs, Ariel Lewin, Donata
Violante, and Conor Whately
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2. Before Ḥimyar: Epigraphic Evidence for the Kingdoms of
South Arabia
Christian Julien Robin
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4. The Archaeological Evidence for the Jafnids and the Nasrids
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Denis Genequand
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5. Arabs in the Conflict between Rome and Persia, ad 491–630
Peter Edwell, with contributions from Greg Fisher, Geoffrey
Greatrex, Conor Whately, and Philip Wood
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6. Arabs and Christianity
Greg Fisher and Philip Wood, with contributions from George
Bevan, Geoffrey Greatrex, Basema Hamarneh, Peter Schadler,
and Walter Ward
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3. Ḥimyar, Aksūm, and Arabia Deserta in Late Antiquity:
The Epigraphic Evidence
Christian Julien Robin
7. Provincia Arabia: Nabataea, the Emergence of Arabic as a
Written Language, and Graeco-Arabica
Zbigniew T. Fiema, Ahmad Al-Jallad, Michael C. A. Macdonald,
and Laïla Nehmé
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Bibliography
Index of Sources
General Index
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8. Arabic and Persian Sources for Pre-Islamic Arabia
Harry Munt, with contributions from Touraj Daryaee, Omar
Edaibat, Robert Hoyland, and Isabel Toral-Niehoff