The ARABI (Arabs Recount Arabia Before Islam) series aims to investigate the narration about pre-Islamic Arabia built in the Arab-Muslim Tradition and compare it, whence possible, with the historical data resumed from direct (epigraphic and archaeological) and external sources.
Each volume introduces some short tales, both in Arabic original and English translation, as examples of how the Tradition itself recorded and re-narrated events and characters of Pre-Islamic Arabian history; these stories are selected preferably among unpublished texts or texts which are not yet translated in English. The tales are preceded by a brief critical study discussing the historical and cultural context either those same tales are framed in, or the sources narrating those tales were collected and written down.
ROAMING TRIBES - TRIBES ON THE MOVE
The epos of al-Azd and Qudaa
TALES
1. 'Amr b 'Amir leaves Ma'rib with al-Azd before the dam fall
2. The introduction of horses among the Arabs
3. The battle of Salut
4. Qudaa and Tanuh reach Iraq
5. The fall of Hatra
Bibliographical references
(Testo arabo al fronte)
Stratigraphy, Architecture, Material Culture
The IMTO excavations of Bronze and Iron Age remains on Jabal Salut
