List of Books and Articles

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Books

• Paganism by Joyce Higginbotham
• An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions
• The Worm in the Tooth by Muwaffak Al Hamdani & Marian Wenzel
• Iamblichus on The Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians
• The Hajj (Pilgrimage in Islam) || Pilgrimage in Pre-Islamic Arabia and Late Antiquity
• The Book of Idols by Ibn al-Kalbi
• The Book of Idols by Ibn al-Kalbi (PDF)
• The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia
• Archaeology and epigraphy at Tayma
• The Ancient Arabs: Nomads on the Borders of the Fertile Crescent 9th-5th Centuries B.C. (PDF)
• The Ancient Arabs: Nomads on the Borders of the Fertile Crescent 9th-5th Centuries B.C.
• Midian, Moab, and Edom : the history and archaeology of late Bronze and Iron Age Jordan and north-west Arabia
• Roman Arabia
• سر الخليقة وصنعة الطبيعة
• Qaryat al-Faw: A Portrait of Pre-Islamic Civilisation in Saudi Arabia (1982)
• Fabled cities, princes & jinn from Arab myths and legends by Al-Saleh, Khairat
• The Arabs In Antiquity Their History From The Assyrians To The Umayyads
• Ismael: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte Palästinas und Nordarabiens
• The Greek Magical Papyri In Translation Including The Demotic Spells
• ON THE NATURE OF THE GODS
• THE CULT OF APHRODITE UNDER THE PTOLEMIES: THE CONSOLIDATION AND LEGITIMIZATION OF A DYNASTY
• Kinship And Marriage In Early Arabia
• The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam From Polemic to History
• The Pantheon Of Palmyra
• The Religion of the Nabataeans: A Conspectus
• Cults and Beliefs at Edessa
• THE SIBYLLINE ORACLES

Articles

• PETRA REVISITED: A REVIEW OF A SEMITIC CULT COMPLEX
• The Descent of Ishtar
• Religious Practices and Beliefs in Wadi Mousa between the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
• Two New Nabataean Inscriptions from Wadi Musa, with Discussion of Gaia and the Marzeah
• Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature
• Nabataean echoes in al-Ḥarrah: New evidence in light of recent field work
• The Language of the Taymanitic Inscriptions and its Classification
• The Aramaic pantheon of Tayma’
• The Ka`ba: Aspects of its Ritual Functions
• Al-‘Uzza: The pre-Islamic goddess of War, Protection, and Healing
• Experiencing Al-‘Uzza Healing Love
• WAS DIONYSOS, THE WINE GOD, VENERATED BY THE NABATAEANS
• New Discoveries at Sela, the Mountain Stronghold of Edom
• Snake, copper and water in south-eastern Arabian religion during the Iron Age: the Bithnah and Masāfi evidence
• Was Arabian Idol Worship Declining on the Eve of Islam?
• The Idea of Idolatry by Smirna Si
• Mysteries and Mysticism in the Arabian Desert
• Sacred Images of Metaphysical World – Perspective of Prehistoric Religion in Arabia
• NABATAEAN FERTILITY MYTH, PLACE, TIME, RITUALS AND ACTORS BASED ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
• The Arabian Iron Age funerary stelaeand the issue of cross-cultural contacts
• The Origins of the Muslim Descriptions of the Jāhilī Meccan Sanctuary
• Early Religion in Ancient Arabia
• An Arabian Trinity
• THE STELE OF TEIMA IN ARABIA: A WELCOME OF THE GODS
• North Arabic Dedanite Script with East-Syriac Reading
• A New Sabaean Inscription: The Goddess Athrat (Athīrat), the Mother of God ‘Athtar المعبودة أثرت (أثيرة) أم المعبود عثتر في ضوء نقش سبئي جديد
• Religion in Arabia among Pastoral and Agrarian Civilizations From the Bronze Age through Islam
• The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia and South Arabia
• The Art of Himyar and the Mountain Kingdoms of Yemen
• المخلافي. عبد السلام. 2021. "The Hymn of Qāniya (Contemporary Rereading)ترنيمة قانية قراءة جديدة" آداب الحديدة. العدد الثامن. 145-210
• Nabataean Jewellery and Accessories
• The Glyptotek presents The Road to Palmyra, the largest collection of ancient Palmyrene tomb sculptures outside of Syria
• The Basileion of Isis and the religious art of nabataean Petra
• Dedan - Khuraibah: Early Ancient Kingdom and Trading Oasis on the Incense Route
• The Seven Stars, Allāt from ʿmn and Dusares from Rqm: A new Safaitic astronomical text
• The month ʾdr in Safaitic and the status of spirantization in "Arabian" Aramaic
• Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magic
• Seasonal offerings among the Minaeans: The case of ancient Yathil
• ʿAbd al-Asad and the Question of a Lion-God in the pre-Islamic Tradition: An Onomastic Study
• Human or Centipede? Egyptian Influence on the Nabataean Culture
• Nabataean Practices for Tombs Protection
• The Tell el-Maskhuta Bowls and the 'Kingdom' of Qedar in the Persian Period
• Men on the Rocks: The Formation of Nabataean Petra
• The divine names at Dadan: a philological approach
• Shrine of Hathor (Timna) - Madain Project (en)
• The Archaeology of Cult of Ancient Israel’s Southern Neighbors and the Midianite-Kenite Hypothesis
• The gods of Palmyra
• Sculpture from Arabia Felix. The Hellenistic Period
• Ammon, Moab, and Edom: Gods and Kingdoms East of the Jordan
• Curse formulae in South Arabian inscriptions and some of their Semitic parallels
• Gods and temples of Palmyra
• Nabataeans or Ituraeans in Mount Lebanon? About the Aramaic inscription of Yanouḥ
• The Aniconic Image of the Roman Near East
• Kamkam the Nabataean Priestess: Priesthood and Society in Ancient Arabia
• Who Are the “Attendants of Helios”?
• How Did the Quranic Pagans Make a Living?
• The Esarhaddon Prism
• Arabic Wine Deities
• A Comparative Study of Priesthoods and Clergy
• A Nabataean Bronze Lamp Dedicated to Baalshamin
• Why worship Gods?
• Foreign Gods, Syncretism and Hellenismos
• Temples and Cult Places in Iron Age Transjordan
• On God Forms
• The pilgrimage of a Sabaean woman
• Languages and scripts at the Arabian Gulf in the Hellenistic period: The epigraphic evidence from Mleiha (Sharjah, U.A.E)
• An Invocation to Jesus in a Safaitic Inscription
• The historical development of Paganism in Najrān, during the pre-and e arly Islamic era (524 -641 AD
• Evidence from a new inscription regarding the goddess ʿṯ(t)rm and some remarks on the gender of deities in South Arabia
• Religions in Pre-Islamic South Arabia
• Arab Kings, Arab Tribes, Arab historical memory
• WINE DRINKING AND WINE PROHIBITION IN ARABIA BEFORE ISLAM
• Modern "Nabataean" military parade as today performed near the ancient dam of Petra
• Al-Jallad. 2021. On the origins of the god Ruḍaw and some remarks on the pre-Islamic North Arabian pantheon
• THE ORIGINS OF MUSLIMS PRAYER
• A Nabatean Incantation Text
• On the Gods and The World by Sallustius
• On the Gods and The World by Sallustius (PDF)
• The Semitic Goddess of Fate, Fortuna-Tyche
• A few notes on the alleged occurrence of the Group name ‘Ghassān’ in a Safaitic inscription
• Rain-Giver, Bone-Breaker,Score-Settler Allāh in Pre-Quranic Poetry
• The “God of Ġsn” in an Ancient North Arabian inscription from the Ḥarra region – Northeastern Jordan.
• Potts 1998 - Identities in the East Arabian region (with assistance from S. Blau). Mediterranean Archaeology 11: 27–38.
• 2011. The Sabaic inscription A–20–216: a new Sabaean-Seleucid synchronism
• 2012. Evidence from a new inscription regarding the goddess 't-(t)rm and some remarks on the gender of deities in South Arabia
• Piecing Together the Religion of the Nabataeans