Arab History

Questions

• What is the Earliest Reference to ‘Arabs’ in Historical Records?
• Gindibu is the ‘First Arab’ in Historical Records (Kurkh Monolith). Where was Gindibu from?
• Where is the Original Homeland of the Arabs? What region did the original Arabs inhabitate?
• What is the Etymology of the term ‘Arab’?
• The Earliest Arab Kingdom/State in Historical Records
• Where does the Term ‘Arabia’ Originate? What did ‘Arabia’ originally refer to?
• When did the term ‘Arabia’ begin to refer to the Entire Peninsula?
• Where did the Achaeminids locate Arabia?
• If the Gulf was not referred to as ‘Arabia’, what did the Achaeminids call the Region instead?
• Where is the Oldest Arabic Inscription in the world found?
• Where did the First Arabic Speakers live? What is the Original Homeland of the Arabic Language?
• Where do we find the Greatest concentration of Arabic texts in the Pre-Islamic period?
• Did the Peninsula Originally speak Arabic?
• What Languages were spoken in the Peninsula before Arabization?
• When did Arabic spread South into Hegaz & Nejd?
• When did Arabic spread to Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Oman & Yemen?
• Do we have evidence of People Self-Identifying as ‘Arab’ before Islam?

Andalusia

• Andalusia
• Arabic poetry with Andalusia
• What was society like in Arab Spain?
• Glossary of Spanish words with Arabic origin

Roman Empire

• Alexander the Great & Gaza/Tyre
• Gaza
• Zethus the Arab
• Seleucid king Antiochus III
• Malik ibn Vadaukas
• What is the Arab region in Rome?
• Palmyra
• Julia Domna
• Assyria/Arabs
• Movement of Arabs towards Europe/Mediterranean

Phoenicians

• Origin of Phoenicians

Architecture

• Caldarium Dome in Qusayr Amra al-Umayyad
• Nasrid Palace
• Dome of the Rock
• Sir Christopher Wren
• An arch from the Kingdom of Hatra
• Yariri

Cyrus/Eastern Arabia

• Cyrus the Great and Arabs
• Eastern Arabia in the Bronze Age

Books

• Arabia & the Arabs by Robert Holland
• General
• Pre-Islamic Arabia
• Carthage/Phoenician colonies
• Middle Ages

Other

• Herod the Great & Idumeans
• Omrid Dynasty of Ancient Israel
• Ghassanids

Mecca

• Meccan Trade: A Critique of Crone (Serjeant)
• Monotheism in Arabia (al-Jallad)
• Pre-Islamic Northern Arabia (Use of “Allah” in Safaitic Inscriptions)
• Himyar
• Yemen & Judaism
• Christian inscriptions mentioning Yazid I (Prof. al-Jallad)
• The People of Ad and the City of Iram
• Christian inscriptions mentioning Muʿāwiya
• The Jews of Hijaz and their Inscriptions (Prof. Hoyland)
• Idol Worship On The Eve of Islam (Prof. Lecker)
• Was there a “Bedouinization of Arabia”? (Prof. Macdonald)