A F L Beeston
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 551883 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A F L Beeston |
| NOMBRES | A F L |
| APELLIDO | Beeston |
| FIRMA | BEESTON A F L |
| AFILIACIONES | 1Oxford |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1937 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Capt. Aylward's Qatabanian inscriptions
Sabaeans in Tihāma
Evidences of Sabaean presence in the Red Sea coastal area west of the Sarāt watershed are exceedingly scanty. In the first three centuries AD, rulers based on Marib or Sanaa made occasional military campaigns down into the coastal area, in order to prevent or punish raiders from the coastal tribes who sometimes made incursions into the highlands; but these campaigns were purely military and led to no permanent Sabaean settlement there. In the ver…
Studies in the History of Arabic Grammar, II
The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature
L'Arabie antique de Karib īl Ā Mahomet
L'Arabie antique de Karib īl Ā Mahomet: nouvelles données sur l'historie des Arabes grāce aux inscriptions. Edited by Christian Robin. (Revue du Monde musulman et de la Méditerranée. No. 61 (1991–1993).) pp. 166, 43 figs., 10 maps. Aix-en-Provence, Éditions Édisud, 1992. FF 120. - Volume 3 Issue 3
On Some Umayyad Poetry in the History of al-Ṭabarī
Ancient Arabic poetry in general is rightly regarded in Arab circles as one of the paramount monuments of Arabic literature, and it is of course also held in esteem among Western scholars. For the most part, however, this admiration does not, in effect, extend to the specifically historical poetry quoted – sometimes in vast quantities – in the works of such historians as Ibn A‘tham al-Kūfī, al-Balādhurī, and al-Ṭabarī. It is readily apparent that…
L’Arabie préislamique et son environment historique et culturel
L’Arabie préislamique et son environment historique et culturel: Actes du Colloque de Strasbourg 24–27 Juin, 1987. Edited by T. Fahd (Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg, Travaux du Centre de Recherche sur le Proche-Orient et la Grèce antiques, 10.) pp. 584, illus., maps. Strasbourg, Centre de Recherche sur le Proche-Orient et la Grèce antiques, distributed by E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1989. - Volume 1 Issue 2
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WORLD DIRECTORY OF MINORITIES. Edited by MINORITY RIGHTS GROUP. (Longman International Reference.) London, Longman, [1989]. 427pp. £40. CONCORDANCE ET INDICES DE LA TRADITION MUSULMANE. Tome VII: INDICES. Edited by WIM RAVEN and JAN JUST WITKAM. Leiden, Brill, 1988. XV, 421pp. Hfl. 400.‐ ISLAMIC NAMES. By ANNEMARIE SCHIMMEL. (Islamic Surveys.) Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1989. xii, 137pp. £25. MORISCOS: REPERTORIO BIBLIOGRÁFICO. Compil…
T. M. Johnstone
T. M. Johnstone: Mehri lexicon and English–Mehri word-list, with index of the English definitions in the Jibbāli lexicon, compiled by G. Rex Smith, lxxi, 676pp. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1987. £20. - Volume 52 Issue 2
Pre-Islamic Yemen in a recent publication
On 28 April 1987 an exhibition opened in Munich under the title “Jemen: 3000 Jahre Kunst und Kultur des Glucklichen Arabiens”. In connection with this, Werner Daum brought together a team of writers to supply background essays on all aspects of Yemeni culture covered by the exhibition; these were published in a sumptuously produced 492 page volume (with splendid illustrations), by Pinguin Verlag of Innsbruck under the simple title Jemen . There a…
"Jāhiz "On the Difference Between Enmity and Envy
Sabaic Grammar
Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period
Kumayt and the wolf
A passage in one of the poems of al-Kumayt describes how the poet encountered a ḏi'b (in this context undoubtedly a wolf) dying of thirst, and out of pity for the beast gave it the remnants of his own water; the first hemistich of the concluding line runs: fa Ǧubba lahŪ sawlun mina'l-mā'i ǵābirun 'so there was poured out for him a scanty boon of water'. The second hemistich bihī kaffa 'anhu 'l-ḥībata 'l-mutaḥawwibu was interpreted by M. Ullmann i…
Mesha and Ataroth
In the famous ‘Moabite stone’ incription, Mesha king of Moab records how, after a long series of defeats inflicted on Moab by Israel, the tide turned and Israel was (according to Mesha's over-optimistic estimate) ‘utterly destroyed’, ʼ bd ʼbd ʿ lm . The passage concerning the town of Ataroth runs, 10 ... w'š gd yšb b'rṣ ʿ ṭrt mʿ lm wybn Ih mlk y 11 šr'l 't ʿ ṭrt w'ltḥm bqr w'ḥzh w'hrg kl hʿm[.] 12 hqr ryt Ikmš wlm'b w'šb mšm ʼt ʼrʼl dwdh wʼ[.] 13…
Mahmud al-Ghul's old South Arabian inscriptions
When Professor Mahmud al-Ghul died on 10 December 1983, he had in his possession four fragments of Sayhadic inscriptions. A year later, at the time of the symposium held at Yarmouk University (Irbid, Jordan) in his memory, they were still with his wife Mrs Rita Ghul, who has kindly placed at my disposal photographs of them, made by Mr Michael Macdonald. The ultimate depository will probably be Yarmouk University, and it is desirable that they sho…
Two Bi'r Ḥīma inscriptions re-examined
The Sabaic rock inscription published by A. Jamme under the siglum Ja 1028, from a Location at Bi'r Ḥimā, 85 km. north-east of Najrān, is among the most important documents that we have for the history of Yemen in the period beford Islam. Attention has hitherto been mainly centred on exploiting its historical data; less notice has been accorded to the detailed linguistic (and specially syntactic) features, which are my topic here
Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic)
The Epistle on Singing Girls of Jāḥiẓ
Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period
Originally published in 1983, The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature was the first general survey of the field to have been published in English for over fifty years and the first attempted in such detail in a multi-volume form. The volumes of the History provide an invaluable source of reference and understanding of the intellectual, literary and religious heritage of the Arabic-speaking and Islamic world. This volume begins its coverage wit…
A Further Note on the Nemara Inscription
Languages of Pre-Islamic Arabia
EOGRAPHICALLY, the Arabian Peninsula should be regarded as being Gbounded on the north by the so-called Fertile Crescent, and thus including the desert areas between the Euphrates and the rift valley which stretches north from 'Aqaba. For knowledge of the linguistic situation before Islam in the peninsula so defined, we must depend principally on a vast number of inscriptions- both formal monumental ones and graffiti- very widely scattered from t…
Alqamah and Bravmann
Nemara and Faw
The many thousands of inscriptions conventionally classified under the headings of Dedanite, Lihyanite, Safaitic, and Thamudic, all share the characteristic of a definite article in the form h- or hn-. Pre-Islamic texts displaying the distinctively Arabic article al are a mere handful; among them, easily the most important is the funerary text of Umru' al-Qays at Nemara (RES 483). This very minuscule corpus has recently been enlarged by two inscr…
Some observations on Greek and Latin data relating to South Arabia
It is well known that, according to Pliny, the originating terminal for caravans conveying frankincense from South Arabia to the Mediterranean was at Shabwa; and there has been much talk of an 'incense road' followed by those caravans. It is, however, very unlikely that there was any single 'road' invariably followed. More probably, there was a multiplicity of routes, any one of which might be chosen according to prevailing circumstances. One suc…
Kingship in Ancient South Arabia
KINGSHIP IN ANCIENT SOUTH ARABIA * BY A. F. L. BEESTON (Oxford) The culture of pre-Islamic South Arabia is attested for us almost exclusively by the Epigraphic South Arabian sources (hence the use of ESA hereinafter for the phenomena of this culture). Such knowledge as the ancient Mediterranean world had of this remote area was tenuous in the extreme; and it is clear that Muslim writers were acquainted with only the last couple of centuries or so…
Nemara and Faw
The many thousands of inscriptions conventionally classified under the headings of Dedanite, Lihyanite, Safaitic, and Thamudic, all share the characteristic of a definite article in the form h- or hn-. Pre-Islamic texts displaying the distinctively Arabic article al are a mere handful; among them, easily the most important is the funerary text of Umru' al-Qays at Nemara (RES 483). This very minuscule corpus has recently been enlarged by two inscr…
Idrisi's Account of the British Isles
Idrisi's great geographical encyclopædia, Nuzhat al-muŠtāq al-āfāq, compiled in A.D. 1153 for King Roger II of Sicily, is formally arranged according to the seven Ptolemaic climates, each divided into ten "sections" numbered from west to east. In this arrangement, Ireland occupies the first section of the seventh climate, and Great Britain the second. Since Tuulio's publication of the third to fifth sections of this climate, it seems time that a …
On Some Umayyad Poetry in the History of al-Ṭabarī
Ancient Arabic poetry in general is rightly regarded in Arab circles as one of the paramount monuments of Arabic literature, and it is of course also held in esteem among Western scholars. For the most part, however, this admiration does not, in effect, extend to the specifically historical poetry quoted – sometimes in vast quantities – in the works of such historians as Ibn A‘tham al-Kūfī, al-Balādhurī, and al-Ṭabarī. It is readily apparent that…
Some observations on Greek and Latin data relating to South Arabia
It is well known that, according to Pliny, the originating terminal for caravans conveying frankincense from South Arabia to the Mediterranean was at Shabwa; and there has been much talk of an 'incense road' followed by those caravans. It is, however, very unlikely that there was any single 'road' invariably followed. More probably, there was a multiplicity of routes, any one of which might be chosen according to prevailing circumstances. One suc…
Parallelism in Arabic Prose
Embedding of the Theme-Predicate Structure in Arabic
An Arabic theme–predicate structure may incorporate, as its predicate element, an embedded structure which itself consists of theme plus predicate. Authorities have not stated how far this process can be continued by further embeddings. Usage indicates, however, that a second embedding occurs only under certain limiting restrictions, and a third embedding not at all
Notes on the Mureighan Inscription
Ry. 506 is an inscription of some importance for an otherwise obscure period of Arabian history. G. Ryckmans, in his editio princeps of the inscription, 3 and J. Ryckmans in his comments thereon, 4 have made very valuable contributions to the understanding of this far from easy text. A few notes may, I think, be nevertheless added. At the outset, one point to be remembered in dealing with this text is that Abraha, its author, is frequently referr…
Problems of Sabæan Chronology
Whereas during the earlier part of South Arabian history dating is effected only by reference to the year of office of an eponymous magistrate, from about the 1st century A.D. we begin to find texts dated by a fixed era. The earliest inscriptions so dated are R.3958 of ' the year 144 ', and R.4197b of ' the year 172 '. Although these two texts are in Sabæan dialect, both have associations with the Beiḥān area, and Albright is probably right in su…
Old South Arabian Antiquities
The first five objects described in this note are the property of Squadron-Leader M. Blaymires, R.A.F., and are at present on loan to the Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery. I am much indebted to Squadron-Leader Blaymires for permission to publish them, and to Mr. Oswald, Keeper of Archaeology and Local History in the Museum, for the facilities which he has afforded me of examining them
A Sabaean Boundary Formula
In the of the Fuad I University, vol. 9, part 1, May, 1947, pp. 25-27, Dr. K. Y. Nami has published an interesting boundary inscription now in the possession of that University. In his treatment of the inscription, however, he has overlooked the fact that a parallel text is to be found in the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, iv, 949. This is unfortunate, since a correlation of the two texts is most helpful in understanding the formula contained …
Two South-Arabian Inscriptions
The following is an attempt at a rendering of the Minæan inscription found on the side of a sarcophagus now in the Cairo Museum, which is dealt with in the Répertoire d'Epigraphie Sémitique , tome vi, 3427, based on the assumption that K. Conti-Kossini in his Chrestomathia is correct in identifying the first word of the inscription with the Ethiopic , “loculus sepulchralis.”
The Land of Sheba
The Arabic Version of Tatian's Diatessaron
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East and West in Sabæan Inscriptions
Besides the common-Semitic forms mšrq and m'rb for east and west, we find in certain Sabæan inscriptions the terms “towards Ya t îl” and “towards Qatabân” employed. Rhodokanakis followed by Höfner assumes the former of these terms to imply “eastwards” and the latter “westwards”. The argument leading to this seems to be roughly as follows: (1) in the Minæan inscription EES 2830, 1–2, ḍr' is opposed to mṣbḥ , and since the latter plainly means the …
A Sabaean Boundary Formula
In the of the Fuad I University, vol. 9, part 1, May, 1947, pp. 25-27, Dr. K. Y. Nami has published an interesting boundary inscription now in the possession of that University. In his treatment of the inscription, however, he has overlooked the fact that a parallel text is to be found in the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, iv, 949. This is unfortunate, since a correlation of the two texts is most helpful in understanding the formula contained …
Darwish Ashraf
The fifteenth-century Persian poet Ashraf has received little attention from the tadhkirah -writers. His name occurs in Aḥmad ‘Alīkhān Hāshimī's vast Makhzan al-gharā'ib , but only with a few baits from a ghazal attached to it, and no details of his life. The only tadhkirah which contains a biographical notice of him is Taqī al-Dīn Kāshī's Khulāṣat al-ash'ār wa zubdat al-afkār . In the India Office manuscript of this work the notice occupies ff. …
Idrisi's Account of the British Isles
Idrisi's great geographical encyclopædia, Nuzhat al-muŠtāq al-āfāq, compiled in A.D. 1153 for King Roger II of Sicily, is formally arranged according to the seven Ptolemaic climates, each divided into ten "sections" numbered from west to east. In this arrangement, Ireland occupies the first section of the seventh climate, and Great Britain the second. Since Tuulio's publication of the third to fifth sections of this climate, it seems time that a …
Répertoire d'Epigraphie Sémitique. Tom. vii, livraison 3. Paris, 1950
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The So-Called Harlots of Hadramaut
The So-Called Harlots of Hadramaut
The Kitab al-Muhabbar of Muhammad ibn Habib al-Bagdadi who died in A.H. 245, contains the following curious passage 1 relative to the apostacy of Hadramaut after the death of the prophet Muhammad. The women who desired the death of Muhammad and their story. When the Prophet of God died, the news of it was carried to Hadramaut by a man of Kulaib, of the Bani 'Amir ibn 'Auf of the Bani 'l-G;ilah, whose name was 6ahbal; this family still lives in Ha…
Old South Arabian Antiquities
The first five objects described in this note are the property of Squadron-Leader M. Blaymires, R.A.F., and are at present on loan to the Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery. I am much indebted to Squadron-Leader Blaymires for permission to publish them, and to Mr. Oswald, Keeper of Archaeology and Local History in the Museum, for the facilities which he has afforded me of examining them
The "'Ali ibn Shah" Preface to Kalilah wa Dimnah
"The “‘Alī Ibn Shah" Preface to Kalilah Wa Dimnah
Sculptures and Inscriptions from Shabwa
The stone fragments here published were recovered from the ruins of Shabwa, in the Hadramaut, in 1938 by Major the Honourable R. A. B. Hamilton (now Lord Belhaven and Stenton) and presented to the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford in 1952. The finder has described his work at Shabwa in a lecture to the Royal Geographical Society, published in the Geographical Journal , and in his book The Kingdom of Melchior
Notes on the Mureighan Inscription
Ry. 506 is an inscription of some importance for an otherwise obscure period of Arabian history. G. Ryckmans, in his editio princeps of the inscription, 3 and J. Ryckmans in his comments thereon, 4 have made very valuable contributions to the understanding of this far from easy text. A few notes may, I think, be nevertheless added. At the outset, one point to be remembered in dealing with this text is that Abraha, its author, is frequently referr…
A Safaitic Hunting Scene
The extremely interesting Safaitic rock-drawing recently published by G. Lankester Harding ( Annals of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan , ii, pp. 29–30) as no. 73 of the inscriptions from the cairn of Hāni’, shows two scenes. One represents goats being herded into a catttle-pen, the other a hunting scene. In the latter three largish animals are being htmted by a man with bow and arrow, a man with upraised arms, and a third man who holds th…
Problems of Sabæan Chronology
Whereas during the earlier part of South Arabian history dating is effected only by reference to the year of office of an eponymous magistrate, from about the 1st century A.D. we begin to find texts dated by a fixed era. The earliest inscriptions so dated are R.3958 of ' the year 144 ', and R.4197b of ' the year 172 '. Although these two texts are in Sabæan dialect, both have associations with the Beiḥān area, and Albright is probably right in su…
The 'Ta'Lab Lord of Pastures' Texts
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H. St. J. B. Philby, 1885–1960
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Sudarabisches Mustabih, Verzeichnis homonymer und homographer Eigennamen
Sabaeica, II. Teil, Die unlokalisierten Funde
Baidāwī's Commentary on Surah 12 of the Qur'ān
Günther Krahl
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The Genesis of the Maqămăt Genre
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