Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, Volume Five: -H-I-

The religious and strategic importance of Western Palestine in the Islamic period is clearly reflected in the hundreds of Arabic inscriptions found, the texts of which cover a variety of topics including construction, dedication, religious endowments, epitaphs, Qur'anic texts, prayers and invocations, all now assembled in this Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (CIAP). The inscriptions are arranged according to site, and are studied in their respective topographical, historical and cultural contexts. In this way the Corpus offers more than a survey of inscriptions: it represents the epigraphical angle of the geographical history of the Holy Land under Islam.

About the author

Moshe Sharon, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Islamic History at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He studied epigraphy under Gaston Wiet, and has been collecting the material for CIAP since the late 1960s. He has published many books and articles on a variety of subjects on medieval Islam and Arabic epigraphy, as well as on the Bābī-Bahā'ī faiths.

Product details

• Authors: Moshe Sharon
• Publisher: Brill
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 13.12.2013
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions
• EAN: 9789004250970
• ISBN: 978-90-04-25097-0
• Pages: 504
• Dimensions (packing): 21 x 29 x 3.4 cm
• Weight (packing): 1,706 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies: > 30
• Subjects: Islam, Palästina, Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens, Nachschlagewerke, HISTORY / Middle East / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, REFERENCE / General, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, HISTORY / United States / General, History - U.S., SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, LANGUAGE STUDY / Arabic