The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān

This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia at the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā (6th - 1st centuries BC), offering a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Fokelien Kootstra obtained her Ph.D. from Leiden University, the Netherlands, in 2019 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University, Belgium. She has published on the epigraphic traditions of pre-Islamic North Arabia (Taymāʾ and al-ʿUlā). Her most recent work focuses on the language and writing culture of the early Arabic papyri.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Fokelien Kootstra
• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 22.12.2022
• EAN: 9789004512627
• ISBN: 978-90-04-51262-7
• Seiten: 342
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 234 mm x 21 mm
• Gewicht: 653 g
• Serie: Studies in Semitic Languages a
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges