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Arabs and Empires before Islam Edited by
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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 ̣ 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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Epigraphic and Papyrological Sigla 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
