New book announcement: Arabs and Empires Before Islam
Greg Fisher
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
I am delighted to announce the publication of my edited volume, Arabs and Empires Before Islam, with OUP. The book is published on July 30 in the UK, and in October in North America. The cover and table of contents are attached as a PDF.
I hope that the volume proves useful!
Greg
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Greg Fisher MA (McGill) DPhil (Oxon)
Associate Professor
College of the Humanities & Department of History
Undergraduate Advisor, Greek and Roman Studies
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
http://carleton.ca/grs/people/greg-fisher/
Staff, Heritage for Peace
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From <http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199654529.do>:
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Arabs and Empires before Islam
Edited by Greg Fisher
608 pages | 89 black and white illustrations and 16 colour plates | 234x156mm
978-0-19-965452-9 | Hardback | July 2015 (estimated) Also available as: eBook
Price: £120.00
Arabs and Empires before Islam collates nearly 250 translated extracts from an extensive array of ancient sources which, from a variety of different perspectives, illuminate the history of the Arabs before the emergence of Islam. Drawn from a broad period between the eighth century BC and the Middle Ages, the sources include texts written in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Persian, and Arabic, inscriptions in a variety of languages and alphabets, and discussions of archaeological sites from across the Near East. More than 20 international experts from the fields of archaeology, classics and ancient history, linguistics and philology, epigraphy, and art history, provide detailed commentary and analysis on this diverse selection of material.
Richly-illustrated with 16 colour plates, 15 maps, and over 70 in-text images, the volume provides a comprehensive, wide-ranging, and up-to-date examination of what ancient sources had to say about the politics, culture, and religion of the Arabs in the pre-Islamic period. It offers a full consideration of the traces which the Arabs have left in the epigraphic, literary, and archaeological records, and sheds light on their relationship with their often more-powerful neighbours: the states and empires of the ancient Near East. Arabs and Empires before Islam gathers together a host of material never before collected into a single volume - some of which appears in English translation for the very first time - and provides a single point of reference for a vibrant and dynamic area of research.
Readership: Scholars and students interested in the history of the Near East and Middle East before the emergence of Islam, including the politics, culture, and religion of the period, from archaeological, epigraphic, linguistic, philological, and art historical perspectives.
Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction
1: Aldo Corcella, Touraj Daryaee, Greg Fisher, Matt Gibbs, Ariel S. Lewin, Michael C. A. Macdonald, Donatella Violante, and Conor Whately: Arabs and Empires before the Sixth Century
2: Christian Julien Robin: Before Himyar: Epigraphic Evidence for the Kingdoms of Saudi Arabia
3: Christian Julien Robin: Himyar, Aksum, and Arabia Deserta in Late Antiquity: The Epigraphic Evidence
4: Denis Genequand: The Archaeological Evidence for the Jafnids and the Nasrids
5: Peter Edwell, with contributions from George Bevan, Greg Fisher, Geoffrey Greatrex, Conor Whateley, and Philip Wood: Arabs in the Conflict between Rome and Persia, 491-630
6: Greg Fisher and Philip Wood, with contributions from George Bevan, Geoffrey Greatrex, Basema Hamarneh, Peter Schadler, and Walter Ward: Arabs and Christianity
7: Zbigniew T. Fiema, Ahmad Al-Jallad, Michael C. A. Macdonald, and Laïla Nehmé: Provincia Arabia: Nabataea, the Emergence of Arabic as a Written Language, and Graeco-Arabica
8: Harry Munt, with contributions from Touraj Daryaee, Omar Edaibat, Robert G. Hoyland, and Isabel Toral-Niehoff: Arabic and Persian Sources for Pre-Islamic Arabia
Index of Sources
Epigraphic and Papyrological Sigla
Bibliography
Index