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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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Arabs --- History --- Middle East --- Arab countries --- Arabs - History - To 622 --- Middle East - History - To 622
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Arabs --- History --- Byzantine Empire --- 527-1081 --- Addresses, essays, lectures --- Arabs - History - To 622
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Literacy --- Arabian Peninsula --- History --- Literacy - Arabian Peninsula --- Arabian Peninsula - History - To 622
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Middle East --- History --- Civilization --- Arab countries --- Middle East - History - To 622 --- Middle East - Civilization - To 622
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Armenia --- Middle East --- History --- Arménie --- Armenia - History - To 428 --- Middle East - History - To 622
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This volume presents the outcomes of the European Science Foundation workshop '?Sea Peoples? Up-to-Date. New Research on Transformations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 13th?11th Centuries BCE', which took place in November 2014 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. It offers up-to-date research on the Sea Peoples phenomenon during the so called ?crisis years? at the end of the Bronze Age. This period encompasses dramatic changes in the political and cultural landscape of mainly the Eastern Mediterranean around 1200 BCE and most of the 12th century BCE. In geographical terms, these changes are noticeable in a vast area stretching from the Italian peninsula over the Balkans, the Aegean, Anatolia and Cyprus, to the Levant and Egypt. The term ?Sea Peoples phenomenon? should be considered as an encompassing term, which ? in addition to the written records on hostile activities of various ethnic groups in the Eastern Mediterranean ? is synonymous with the effect of this turbulent period as reflected in the material remains. As a consequence, these events ended the Late Bronze Age, the first period of ?internationalism? in human history.
Sea Peoples --- Mediterranean Region --- Middle East --- Antiquities --- History --- Antiquities. --- Sea Peoples. --- To 622. --- Mediterranean Region. --- Middle East. --- History. --- Conferences - Meetings --- Mediterranean Region - Antiquities --- Mediterranean Region - History --- Middle East - History - To 622. --- Middle East - History - To 622 - Congresses
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Focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean world in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, this collection of essays draws on new discoveries in archaeology and epigraphy. It illustrates how methods and interpretations have developed over the last two decades. The essays cover a wide range of social and historical issues, including processes of Hellenization and acculturation, the permeability and flexibility of political boundaries, the interaction of civil and religious authority, and the operation of networks of patronage and power.
Middle East --- Moyen-Orient --- History --- Histoire --- Grèce --- Rome --- Royaumes hellénistiques --- Relations --- Arab countries --- To 622 --- Middle East - History - To 622.
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Kings and rulers, Ancient --- Middle East --- History --- Kings and rulers --- Middle East - History - To 622 --- Middle East - Kings and rulers
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