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This book delves into the political and cultural developments of pre-Islamic Arabia, focusing on the religious attitudes of the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula and its northern extension into the Syrian desert. Between the third and the seventh century, Arabia was on the edge of three great empires (Iran, Rome and AksuÌ"m) and at the centre of a lucrative network of trade routes. Valentina Grasso offers an interpretative framework which contextualizes the choice of Arabian elites to become Jewish sympathisers and/or convert to Christianity and Islam by probing the mobilization of faith in the shaping of Arabian identities. For the first time the Arabians of the period are granted autonomy from marginalizing (mostly Western) narratives framing them as 'barbarians' inhabiting the fringes of Rome and Iran and/or deterministic analyses in which they are depicted retrospectively as exemplified by the Muslims' definition of the period as JaÌ"hiliÌ"yah, 'ignorance'.

Arabian Peninsula --- History --- History To 622.

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Middle East - History - To 622 --- Middle East --- History

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Middle East --- Economic conditions --- To 622 --- Congresses --- Social conditions --- Academic collection

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This book explores the lands of the ancient Near East from around 3200 BCE to 539 BCE. The earth-shaking changes that marked this era include such fundamental inventions as the wheel and the plow and intellectual feats such as the inventions of astronomy, law, and diplomacy.

To 622. --- Middle East --- Middle East. --- Naher Osten. --- History --- 922 --- oudheid --- Griekenland --- Romeinse Rijk --- geschiedenis - oudheid, Oosterse oudheid --- Arab countries

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A Companion to the Ancient Near East offers students and general readers a comprehensive overview of Near Eastern civilization from the Bronze Age to the conquests of Alexander the Great. Covers the civilizations of the Sumerians, Hittites, Babylonians, Assyrians, Israelites and Persians Places particular emphasis on social and cultural history Covers the legacy of the Ancient Near East in the medieval and modern worlds Provides a useful bibliographical guide to this field of study

Oudheid. --- Middle East --- Moyen-Orient --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- 935 --- 939.4 <01> --- Geschiedenis van het Tweestromenland en het Oude Midden-oosten --- Geschiedenis van Syrië--Bibliografieën. Catalogi --- 939.4 <01> Geschiedenis van Syrië--Bibliografieën. Catalogi --- 935 Geschiedenis van het Tweestromenland en het Oude Midden-oosten --- History of Asia --- Antiquity --- To 622 --- 935 History of ancient Medo-Persia (Chadaea, Mesopotamia etc.). History of the Medes, Persians, Assyrians, Babylonians --- History of ancient Medo-Persia (Chadaea, Mesopotamia etc.). History of the Medes, Persians, Assyrians, Babylonians --- Middle East - Civilization - To 622 --- Moyen Orient --- Jusqu'à 622 --- Civilisation antique