Ancient World Seminar: Ahmad Al-Jallad (Groningen University), “Landscape, memory, and ritual in the Black Desert: a view from the pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions of the Syro-Arabian Ḥarrah”
| When: | Tu 18-01-2022 16:15 - 17:30 |
| Where: | Online |
| Link: | https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/8652c1375c0c440b862a6a290f8f0808 |
Abstract
Safaitic is the name of an alphabet employed by the Arabian nomads east of the Ḥawrān some twenty centuries ago. The corpus of inscriptions exceeds some 40,000 specimens, with countless more texts awaiting discovery. The inscriptions provide a unique glimpse into the religious and ritual life of their authors. This talk will attempt to reconstruct the mortuary rituals of the Safaitic authors based on their inscriptions and their archeological context.
About the speaker
Ahmad Al-Jallad, UHD at the University of Groningen, is a philologist, epigraphist, and historian of pre-Islamic Arabia's languages and religions.