古代アラブ人の歴史 The Arabs in Antiquity : Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads

Retso, Jan

Routledge（2002/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 704 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780700716791
• DDC分類 930.04927

基本説明

Descrives the history of the Arabs in antiquity fror their earliest appearance around 835 BC until the first century of Islam.

Full Description

The history of the Arabs in antiquity from their earliest appearance around 853 BC until the first century of Islam, is described in this book. It traces the mention of people called Arabs in all relevant ancient sources and suggests a new interpretation of their history. It is suggested that the ancient Arabs were more a religious community than an ethnic group, which would explain why the designation 'Arab' could be easily adopted by the early Muslim tribes. The Arabs of antiquity thus resemble the early Islamic Arabs more than is usually assumed, both being united by common bonds of religious ideology and law.

Contents

Prologue - An introduction to the problem by showing how the word Arab is used among modern Bedouin

Part I. A Presentation of the use of the word in calssical Islamic sources

Part II. A Survey of all relevant occurrencies of the work in Akkadian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin

Part III. A Synthesis of the information we have about the living conditions of the groups called Arabs

Conclusion

Bibliography