Author: K. A. Kitchen
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Keywords: ancient, arabia, university, press, world, liverpool, catalogue, part, bibliographical, documentation, texts
Number of Pages: 848
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 085323860X
ISBN-13: 9780853238607
This new volume provides an indispensable guide to the proliferating bibliography (often hard of access) of several thousand Ancient Arabian inscriptions through one-and-a-half millennia (c. 1000 BC to c. 570 AD), mainly in South Arabia, but including also some monumental texts from NW Arabia and others from E Arabia. The Bibliography offers important information on each principal text (all sigla by which each is named, with ample cross-references; location, date, nature, besides the vital list of publications in which each appears). A comprehensive but compact set of charts provides a basic p
Author: K. A. Kitchen
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Keywords: arabia, ancient, liverpool, university, world, sources, press, framework, part, chronological, documentation, historical
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1994-12-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0853233594
ISBN-13: 9780853233596
This first volume in the World of Ancient Arabia Series presents an entirely fresh treatment of the vexed problems of the dating of the kingdoms of ancient pre-Islamic Arabia, offering a new minimal chronology for the whole peninsula. In Part One, the first chapter refines recent work on SW Arabian dates for the first six centuries AD, and lists documented dates for the Himyarite and parallel eras. The second chapter links up Egypt and Lihyan and the SW kingdoms of Main, Saba, etc., minimally within c350-0 BC.
Author: Liz Stanton
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: saudi, arabia, year, adventure, three, stays, happens, book
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-12-17
List price: $62.49
ISBN-10: 1434393070
ISBN-13: 9781434393074
What Happens In Saudi Arabia, Stays In Saudi Arabia, Except For This Book. Includes 50 color photographs! Is a candid account of my almost 3 years as a single American Nurse in Saudi Arabia. I was fascinated, and often disturbed by the very conservative Muslim Culture. I met people from all over the world, there to work as I was. The difference was, I was there for the adventure, while most everyone else was there due to financial hardships in their home countries. After friends & family told me how much they enjoyed hearing my "Saudi" stories, I decided to share them with a bigger audienc
Author: P. Marcel Kurpershoek
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: oral, central, arabia, poetry, narratives, settlement, southern, najd, nomadism, poets, bedouin, dawasir, tribe
Number of Pages: 506
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $211.00
ISBN-10: 9004112766
ISBN-13: 9789004112766
Presenting and analyzing the work of four contemporary Bedouin poets of the Dawasir tribe in southern Najd, this text discusses the poetry within the context of the Najd oral tradition; the poets’ role in tribal society and their mirroring of this society’s self-image against its rapid economic, social and political transformation; and its relation with the Saudi state. It is followed by the Arabic text of the poems in transcription with the English version on the facing page. The book also contains works on the Najd dialect and poetic idiom, as well as corresponding Classical Arab
Author: G. W. Bowersock
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: arabia, roman
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 1998-08-19
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0674777565
ISBN-13: 9780674777569
The Roman province of Arabia occupied a crucial corner of the Mediterranean world, encompassing most of what is now Jordan, southern Syria, northwest Saudi Arabia, and the Negev. Mr. Bowersock’s book is the first authoritative history of the region from the fourth century B.C. to the age of Constantine. The book opens with the arrival of the Nahataean Arabs in their magnificent capital at Petra and describes the growth of their hellenized culture based on trade in perfume and spices. It traces the transformation of the region from an Arab kingdom under Roman influence into an imperi
Author: MD Kavanwal
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Keywords: arabia, awry
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 2010-03-23
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1615660798
ISBN-13: 9781615660797
A callous, cruel queen...murder, the punishment for lust and immorality... Emma Gildcrest, a Canadian nurse who came to Saudi Arabia to offer help and expertise, longs for normalcy, but not before she claims her completion bonus. Having been subjected to the prisons in Arabia and witness to public lashings, this sequel to Mary D. Kavanwal’s Surreal in Saudi brings readers face-to-face with the realities and cultural practices inside this foreign land. Emma wrestles to hold onto her faith inside a country that forbids religion other than Islam and amidst those she cares for who have left
Author: Bob Italia
Publisher: Checkerboard Book
Keywords: countries, arabia, saudi
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $25.65
ISBN-10: 157765840X
ISBN-13: 9781577658405
