The Nazarean Legacy
After Pompey Magnus’s conquest of the Hellenistic East in 64 B.c., the Roman administrators of Asia Occidentalis divided the Arabian peninsula into three realms: Arabia Petraea (Rocky Arabia), which stretched from Greater Syria to the Gulf of Ayala (Aqaba), and whose capital in Petra (the Rock) was...
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| Language: | English |
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International Institute of Islamic Thought
1998-07-01
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| Series: | American Journal of Islam and Society |
| Online Access: | https://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/2194 |