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Arabs and Empire Before IslamEdited by Greg FisherThe only volume to provide a rich and detailed anthology of sources for the history of the Near East and Middle East in the pre-Islamic periodFeatures international contributors drawn from a broad range of academic disciplines, including archaeology, classics, ancient history, linguistics, philology, epigraphy, and art history&#60;img class="alignright" src="https://global.oup.com/academic/covers/pdp/9780199654529" alt="Cover for&#60;br /&#62;Arabs and Empire Before Islam&#60;br /&#62;" /&#62;Provides up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of over two hundred and fifty individual translated sources, such as ancient texts, inscriptions, and discussions of archaeological and artistic materialDescriptionArabs and Empires Before Islam illuminates the history of the Arabs before the emergence of Islam, collating nearly two hundred and fifty translated extracts from an extensive array of ancient sources. 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 twenty 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 sixteen colour plates, fifteen maps, and over seventy 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.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsCopyright AcknowledgementsTransliteration TablesLeaders of Arab Dynasties and the Kingdom of HimyarEditor's Introduction1. Arabs and Empire Before the Sixth Century, Aldo Corcella, Greg Fisher, Matt Gibbs, Ariel S. Lewin, Michael C. A. Macdonald, Touraj Daryaee, Donatella Violante, and Conor Whately2. Before Himyar: Epigraphic Evidence for the Kingdoms of Saudi Arabia, Christian Julien Robin3. Himyar, Axum, and Arabia Deserta in Late Antiquity: The Epigraphic Evidence, Christian Julien Robin4. The Archaeological Evidence for the Jafnids and the Nasrids, Denis Genequand5. Arabs in the Conflict Between Rome and Persia, 491-630, Peter Edwell, with contributions from George Bevan, Greg Fisher, Geoffrey Greatrex, Conor Whateley, and Philip Wood6. Arabs and Christianity, Greg Fisher and Philip Wood, with contributions from George Bevan, Basema Hamarneh, Peter Schadler, and Walter Ward7. 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 Laila Nehme8. Arabic and Persian Sources for Pre-Islamic Arabia, Harry Munt, with contributions from Touraj Daryaee, Omar Edaibat, Robert G. Hoyland, and Isabel Toral-NiehoffEpigraphic and Papyrological SiglaReferencesIndex of Quoted SourcesIndexAuthor InformationGreg Fisher, Associate Professor, College of the Humanities and Department of History, Carleton UniversityGreg Fisher is Associate Professor in the College of the Humanities and the Department of History at Carleton University.https://global.oup.com/academic/product/arabs-and-empire-before-islam-9780199654529?lang=en&#38;cc=be#