Arabs 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 writ…
The conquest of Arabia
by Donner, Fred McGraw, Ṭabarī
fromSUNY series in Near Eastern studies
The conquest of Arabia
by Donner, Fred McGraw, Ṭabarī
fromSUNY series in Near Eastern studies
This book offers a study of plant uses among the Najdi Arabic-speaking tribal peoples of eastern Saudi Arabia. It also makes a major contribution to the larger project of ethnobotany by describing aspects of a nomadic peoples' conceptual relationships with the plants of their h…