Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads Book

	Preface
	Maps
	Prolegomena	1
Pt. I	The remembered origins	11
1	Arabs in early Islam	13
2	Arabs as a people	24
3	The Arabs as a section of society	63
4	The neglected cousins	82
5	Arabs in the eyes of outsiders	96
Pt. II	The forgotten origins	103
6	The problem of the earliest Arabs	105
7	Arabs in cuneiform sources	119
8	The Old Testament and Arabia	212
9	The age of the Achaemenids	235
10	Alexander the Great and the Arabs	263
11	The heirs of Alexander	282
12	Between the Greeks and the Romans	329
13	The Nabataean problem	364
14	Arabs and Romans until the time of Trajan	392
15	Arabs in the age of the good emperors	432
16	From the Severians to Constantine the Great	454
17	The disappearing Arabs	505
18	Arabs in Talmudic sources	526
19	Arabs in South Arabia	536
Pt. III	The solution of an enigma?	575
20	The picture of Arabs in pre-Islamic sources	577
21	The linguistic issues	591
22	The Arabs and their religion	600
	Summing up: the Arabs from the Assyrians to the Umayyads	623
	Bibliography	627
	General index	668
	Index locorum	680