Rethinking the Qur’ān in Late Antiquity

How the Qur’ān reflects on and responds to the regional cultural, religious and political currents swirling in Western Arabia and neighboring areas during the great war, 603-630, between the Roman and Sasanian empires? The book approaches the Qur’ān through six case studies. The first two consider the era 200-800 CE, which classicist Peter Brown dubbed late antiquity. The second two contextualize quranic stories and tropes in the era of Herakleios and Khosrow II. The final pair consider issues in how the Qur’ān was constituted, both physically and stylistically, and also sets these processes in their late antique context. The book treats the constitution of the quranic text, first physically and then rhetorically. The use in the Qur’ān of the technique of narrative apostrophe is for the first time subjected to a concerted analysis. These themes are all united by a concern to understand better issues in why the Qur’ān makes certain narrative choices, how the narrative changes over time, and how it articulates with other texts and perspectives.

Ancient Smoke and Sacred Healing | Geekoo

Chemical analysis of Iron Age vessels in Saudi Arabia has revealed the world’s earliest known use of the medicinal and psychoactive plant harmal, offering a rare window into ancient therapeutic rituals and the deep roots of Arabian healing practices.

Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

The Ancient North Arabian inscriptions from Khirbet Rizqeh, Jordan

The Ancient North Arabian inscriptions from Khirbet Rizqeh, Jordan

The Sabians as One of the Religious Groups in Pre-Islamic Arabia and Their Definition through the Qur'an and Medieval Arabic Sources

The Sabians as One of the Religious Groups in Pre-Islamic Arabia and Their Definition through the Qur'an and Medieval Arabic Sources

Egyptian cultural impact on north-west Arabia in the second and first millennia BC

Egyptian cultural impact on north-west Arabia in the second and first millennia BC

(1998) L. THOLBECQ, The Nabataeo-Roman Site of Wadi Ramm (Iram): A New Appraisal

(1998) L. THOLBECQ, The Nabataeo-Roman Site of Wadi Ramm (Iram): A New Appraisal

2021: The Inner Wall of Taymāʾ: Aspects of its building history and chronology by A. Hausleiter, in: C. Bührig, M. van Ess, I. Gerlach, A. Hausleiter, B. Müller-Neuhof (eds.), Klänge der Archäologie – Festschrift für Ricardo Eichmann, 175-186

The spatial organization of the oasis of Taymāʾ is characterized by its wall system, the construction of which began in the Early Bronze Age. While the maximum extent of the walled oasis may have been reached in the late 2nd millennium BCE, its

Nabataean inscriptions from southwest of Taymāʾ, Saudi Arabia

This group of inscriptions was found at several sites southwest of Taymāʾ, on the way to Al-ʿUlā. They were discovered by Dr Bader al-Faqayr, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, King Saud University during his

2004 - Antonini Sabina, New South-Arabian Amulets

2004 - Antonini Sabina, New South-Arabian Amulets