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250 pages, Hardback
150x220mm, Portrait
Available October 2009.
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ISBN-10: 1906768102
ISBN-13: 9781906768102
Price £18.95
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The Lakhmids of Hira
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The first Lakhmids are thought to have emigrated from Yemen in the second century. Establishing their empire across what is now Iraq and North-East Arabia, they held sway across the lands that lay between the the Persians and the Romans.
The Lakhmids were a major force among the great pre-Islamic Arab peoples. Lakhmid culture and learning spread widely, and carried much influence. Hira, the centre of the Lakhmid kingdom, was where the early Arabic alphabet was standardised. In The Lakhmids of Hira, Yasmin Zahran brings her lively yet informed style to bear on a hitherto unjustly neglected dynasty of Arabia’s history. Introduced by Dr Robert Hoyland, with a chronology and a detailed bibliography, The Lakhmids of Hira is a required addition to the shelves of any Arabist or Middle East historian. |
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| Yasmine Zahran - Author of Philip the Arab: A Study in Prejudice and Septimius Severus: Countdown to Death. Born in Ramallah, Palestine, she was educated at Columbia University, New York, and the University of London, and received a doctorate in archaeology at the Sorbonne, Paris. She worked at UNESCO for a number of years and established, directed and taught at the Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology in Jerusalem (1991-1995). She divides her time between Paris and Ramallah, where she writes and researches, besides travelling extensively to visit archaeological sites.
Professor Robert Hoyland - Robert Hoyland is Professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies at St
Andrews University.
Related title(s):
Septimius Severus: Countdown to Death By Yasmine Zahran
Philip the Arab: A Study in Prejudice By Yasmine Zahran
Ghassan Resurrected By Yasmine Zahran
Zenobia - Between Reality and Legend By Yasmine Zahran
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