Al Jallad (Ahmad), The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia. A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions, Leiden, Brill, ("Ancient Languages and Civilizations, Volume; 1"), 2022, ISBN 978-90-04-50427-1
Author
Ahmad Al-Jallad, Ph.D. (2012), Harvard University, is Universitair Hoofddocent in Islamic Origins at the University of Groningen. He has published on inscriptions, writing cultures, and religions of Ancient Arabia and their reception in Islamic-period literary sources, as well as on the comparative grammar of the Semitic languages.
Content
Preface
List of Illustrations
Sigla
1 Introduction
1 Religion and the Inscriptions of the Pre-Islamic Nomads: From Thamudic B to Safaitic
2 Scope and Methodology
2 Rites
1 Animal Sacrifice
2 Erection of the nṣb Stone
3 The Ritual Shelter
4 The Pilgrimage
5 Ritual Purity
6 Offerings
7 Vows and Oaths
8 Sacred Water
3 Divinities and Their Roles in the Lives of Humans
1 Location of the Deities
2 The Gadds
3 The Gods and Their Worshippers
4 Sin, Obedience, and Repentance?
5 Malignant Magic
4 Fate
5 Afterlife
1 Burial Installations
2 Invoking the Names of the Dead
6 Visual Representation of Deities and the Divine World
7 Amplification and Why Write
8 Worldview—A Reconstruction
Appendix 1: Glossary of Divinities
Appendix 2: Previously Unpublished Inscriptions
Bibliography
Index