TY - BOOK ID - 127118599 TI - Redefining history on pre-Islamic accounts : the Arabic recension of the Martyrs of Najrân PY - 2010 SN - 1617191582 9781617191589 PB - Piscataway: Gorgias Press, DB - UniCat KW - Arethas et socii mm. Nagranae (Martyres Himyarites seu Homeritae) KW - Christian martyrs KW - Arabia, Southern KW - Arethas - Saint, martyr, - active 6th century UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:127118599 AB - As the account of the Martyrs of Najran has hitherto been known only through the Greek and the Syriac textual tradition, an original analysis of the Arabic account, with a comparative scope is offered in this book to provide information about the most important details, and for identifying the original text from which the Arabic version was done. Thus, the aim of the present book is to make available to the researchers a comparative study of the contents and structure of the tragic events which took place in the South Arabian city of Najran as they were narrated in the Arabic recension contained in the MS Sinaitic Arabic 535, the most important of the Arabic witnesses in which the account of the martyrs of Najran is included. ER -