
Scripts and Scripture
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- Front Cover
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations and Sigla
- List of Contributors
- Maps of Arabia and Adjacent Regions
- Introduction
- 1. Scripts and Scripture in Late Antique Arabia: An Overview
- 2. The Oral and the Written in the Religions of Ancient North Arabia
- 3. The Religious Landscape of Northwest Arabia as Reflected in the Nabataean, Nabataeo-Arabic, and Pre-Islamic Arabic Inscriptions
- 4. One Waw to Rule Them All: The Origins and Fate of Wawation in Arabic and Its Orthography
- 5. ?Arabi and a?jami in the Qur?an: The Language of Revelation in Mu?ammad's ?ijaz
- 6. Scripture, Language, and the Jews of Arabia
- 7. Script, Text, and the Bible in Arabic: The Evidence of the Qur?an
- 8. Language of Ritual Purity in the Qur?an and Old South Arabian
- 9. The Invention of a Sacred Book
- 10. Script or Scripture? The Earliest Arabic Tombstones in the Light of Jewish and Christian Epitaphs
- 11. Religious Warfare and Martyrdom in Arabic Graffiti (70s-110s AH/690s-730s CE)
- 12. Writing and the Terminological Evolution of the Qur?anic Surah
- 13. The Adversarial Clansman in Qur?anic Narrative and Early Muslim Antipatrimonialism
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover
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