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Women in Pre-Islamic Arabia: Nabataea
Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi
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In addition to feminist studies, this work uses epigraphy, archaeology and classical sources, as well as recent developments in historiography, to understand Nabataean society and Nabataean women in particular. The author has highlighted to main study areas. The first is to investigate whether Nabataean women enjoyed a high status that was particular to their society and history. The second related enquiry is to investigate what made it possible for Nabataean women in the first century BCE-CE tobecome visible in inscriptions and numismatics (i.e. prominent in that period, place and time) In other words what are the factors that allowed women such status And were they factors particular to Nabataean women, their society or history A further interesting objective of this book is to question the assumption of subordination of women in pre-Islamic Arabia.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Dedication
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CONTENTS
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LIST OF PLATES
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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TRANSLITERATION CORRESPONDENCE
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ABBREVIATIONS
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INTRODUCTION
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Chapter One: Rules of Engagement: The Politics of Writing Ancient History
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Chapter Two: Imaging Nabataea
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Chapter Three: The Composition of Society
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Chapter Four: Nabataean Woman
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Chapter Five: Mapping Nabataea: Behind the Emergence of Woman
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Conclusion: Interpreting Female Nabataea
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Bibliography
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Plates
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Back Cover
Citable Link
Published: 2007
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407331300 (ebook)
- 9781407300955 (paperback)
BAR Number: S1659