Contents: Introduction: The development of Arabic as a written language (Christian Julien Robin); Ancient Arabia and the written word (M.C.A. Macdonald); Mount Nebo, Jabal Ramm, and the status of Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Old Arabic in Late Roman Palestine and Arabia (Robert Hoyland); A glimpse of the development of the Nabataean script into Arabic based on old and new epigraphic material (Laïla Nehmé); The evolution of the Arabic script in the period of the Prophet MuΉammad and the Orthodox Caliphs in the light of new inscriptions discovered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (‘Alī Ibrāhīm Al-Ghabbān); In search of a standard: dialect variation and New Arabic features in the oldest Arabic written documents (Pierre Larcher); The codex Parisino-petropolitanus and the Ήijāzī scripts (François Déroche); The relationship of literacy and memory in the second/eighth century (Gregor Schoeler); The Use of the Arabic script in magic (Venetia Porter); The Old Arabic graffito at Jabal Usays: A new reading of line 1 (M.C.A. Macdonald).
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Michael C.A. Macdonald is a Fellow of the British Academy, holds a D.Litt from the University of Chicago, and is an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. For the last 50 years he has studied the languages, scripts, rock-art and cultures of ancient Arabia and its neighbours, ancient nomads, and ancient literacy. He has led numerous expeditions to record inscriptions in the deserts of Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and led the creation of the Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (OCIANA).
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