商品簡介
Western Palestine is extremely rich in Arabic inscriptions, whose dates range from as early as ce 150 until modern times.
Most of the inscriptions date from the Islamic period, for under Islam the country gained particular religious and strategic importance, even though it made up only part of the larger province of Syria.
This historical importance is clearly reflected in the hundreds of inscriptions, the texts of which cover a variety of topics: construction, dedication, religious endowments, epitaphs, Qur'anic texts, prayers and invocations, all now assembled in this Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (CIAP).
The inscriptions are arranged according to site, and are studied in their respective topographical, historical and cultural contexts. In this way the CIAP offers more than a survey of inscriptions: it represents the epigraphical angle of the geographical history of the Holy Land.
作者簡介
Moshe Sharon, Ph.D. holds the chair in Baha'i Studies and is Professor of Islamic History at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
