Ali al‐Manaser
Biographic Data
| ID | 5153463 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ali al‐Manaser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | al‐Manaser |
| SIGNATURE | AL MANASER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hashemite University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1911-0632 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Colonial-industrial heritage in Jordan: The case of the As-Safawi H5 pumping station
The heritage of the recent and contemporary past has become a major area of study for historical archaeologists, architectural historians and heritage professionals. Yet the industrial heritage of the Middle East has been comparatively little studied despite the very significant role the extraction of oil has played in the region’s modern history: the early history of oil extraction is inseparable from the imperialist and colonial history the reg…
A Dated Paleo‐Arabic Inscription Mentioning Al‐Mundhir ( ʾmndr ) the King
This contribution edits a newly discovered Paleo‐Arabic inscription from Wādī al‐Šuwayṭī in the northeastern Jordanian Ḥarrah. The inscription is dated to the reign of a king called ʾmndr , identified by the authors as the Jafnid ruler Al‐Mundhir III ibn al‐Harith. Some remarks on its implications about Arab rulership and identity are also offered
Heritage in Stone: Some Remarks on Newly Discovered Ancient North Arabia -Safaitic- Graffiti From Syro-Arabian Ḥarrah
In this paper, we highlight a remarkable compilation of Ancient North Arabian (ANA) “Safaitic” inscriptions discovered in the Jordanian Badia, specifically in Wādī Swīʿad and the al-Wādī al-Abyyaḍ. Through thorough analysis and comparison with published inscriptions and other Semitic languages, we uncover an array of personal names and diverse terms. These inscriptions vividly portray the daily customs and beliefs of the inhabitants, offering a v…
Documenting the ḥarra’s epigraphic heritage: New Palmyrene inscriptions from the Jordanian ḥarra
This paper aims to shed light on the Palmyrene inscriptions discovered during the Badia Epigraphic Survey (BES) from 2015 to 2023, through a comparative and linguistic approach. Additionally, we attempt to understand the reasons for the presence of these inscriptions in the Jordanian Badia, which appears to be related to trade. This is the first comprehensive study of the entire corpus of Palmyrene inscriptions known so far from the Jordanian ḥar…
The Ḥarrah’s Written Heritage: New Palmyrene and Safaitic Inscriptions from the Ḥarrat aš‐Šām Desert, North-Eastern Jordan
Ancient and modern inscriptions in the basalt desert: News from the 2023 season of the Badia Epigraphic Survey in north‐east Jordan
The Badia Epigraphic Survey (BES) Project was launched in 2015 by Ali Al‐Manaser and Michael C. A. Macdonald and, with two gaps, has been conducting annual surveys in the ḥarra of north‐eastern Jordan ever since. The 2023 survey, like that of 2018, set out to rediscover the cairns at the border between the ḥarra and the ḥamād at which, in the late 1950s, Professor Fred V. Winnett and Gerald Lankester Harding (WH) discovered over 4000 inscriptions…
From Nabataeo-Arabic to Palaeo-Arabic: Two new pre-Islamic graffiti from the Jordanian Ḥarrah
The main objective of this study is to shed light on two recently discovered graffiti, which were identified in the context of the Badia Epigraphic Survey (BES) project. These graffiti are Nabataeo-Arabic and Palaeo-Arabic inscriptions. The research presents an analysis of these inscriptions, which are rarely found in the Jordanian Ḥarrah
The Ḥarrah ’s Epigraphic Heritage: New Greek inscriptions from the black desert in north-eastern Jordan
Glʿd and NGD: Some New Epigraphic Heritage From the Black Desert in North-Eastern Jordan
This study aims at presenting newly-found safaitic inscriptions dis-covered in the Black Desert, north-eastern Jordan by the Badia Epigraphic Survey (BES) during the second (2017) field season at Wādī ar-Ruʿaylah and in Wādī Suwayʿid. Through this paper, we aim to explain the toponyms Glʿd and Ngd in the Safaitic inscriptions, shed light on their interpretation in Safaitic and give translation and some commentary. This paper provides a comparison…
Management of Religious Tourism in the Baptism Site Jordan-South Levant
This study attempts to present and assess, the positive and negative impact of tourism activities and services on the cultural significance of the site, taking into consideration the area status and the site’s particularity and capacities. This will be achieved through a general understanding of why the baptism archaeological site should be pre-served, by evaluating its cultural significance, the existing conditions, defining the causes of deteri…
Documenting Jordan's epigraphic heritage: Preliminary remarks on newly discovered Safaitic inscriptions
This paper presents some of the new Safaitic inscriptions that were found in 2022 in one of the branches of Wādī al‐Khuḍarī, which is in al‐Ḥarrah approximately 35 km to the northwest of al‐Ruwayshed (H4). Two of these inscriptions bear an attestation for the verb ṣlb , meaning ‘to crucify’. This is the fourth appearance of that verb in Safaitic inscriptions. The verb is thoroughly discussed in this study since the topic of crucifixion in the con…
The Ḥarrah’s epigraphic heritage: New safaitic inscriptions from the Black Desert in north-eastern Jordan and a Greek inscription referring to Zeus Kyrios
This paper publishes six new inscriptions discovered at three different sites within the Ḥarrah desert in north-eastern Jordan during the 2017 and 2018 seasons of the BES (Badia Epigraphic Survey). The first text is a five-line Greek inscription referring to the god Zeus Kyrios ‘Zeus the Lord’ a form of Zeus whose cult was popular in the Ḥawrān and whose name is recognized as masking that of Baalshamin. The text is authored by a person bearing th…
Old Arabic Minutiae II: Greek-Safaitic Bilinguals and Language Contact in the Syro-Arabian Ḥarrah
This article publishes a selection of texts discovered during the 2019 Badia Survey that shed light on the complex interactions between the inhabitants of the desert and settled areas. The inscriptions studied here include two new Safaitic-Greek bilingual texts, two new Greek inscriptions, and a Safaitic text composed by an inhabitant of the city of Bosra in the Ḥawrān
An edition of new Nabataean inscriptions from Umm al-Jimāl
This paper reports on a study of six new Nabataean inscriptions found in Umm al-Jimāl in the north-eastern Badia of Jordan. These inscriptions are a new addition to the corpus of Nabataean inscriptions. The inscriptions were engraved using the square or monumental script
The Harrah's epigraphic heritage: Arabic graffito from the Black Desert in north‐eastern Jordan referring to the Umayyad caliph Hishām b. ʿAbd al‐Malik
The aim of this article is to republish, reread and interpret an Arabic inscription from the Black Desert, north‐eastern Jordan, to shed light on the practice of the dating system used before the Umayyad era, in which the dating of the inscription is linked to a specific event. The inscription was re‐discovered by the present authors during the 2019 Badia Epigraphic Survey. It dates to the death of Hishām, who, as can be assumed, is the Umayyad c…
Some New Epigraphy Material from the Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan
The aim of this research is to present a new collection of ANA inscriptions (Safaitic) discovered in 2017 in the Jordanian northeastern Badia in the area of Tall Al-Hafit. The research attempts to add a new meaning to the interpretation of the verb ʿwr in the Safaitic inscriptions. This research also introduces a new inscription bearing a reference to the town of Salkhad, which is located in southern Syria. This is the fifth inscription mentionin…
Epigraphica Dusaria I. Some Nabataean, Hismaic and Hismaic/Nabataean inscriptions with rock drawings from the Ḥismā desert, north‐west of Tabūk (Saudi Arabia)
This paper studies a group of inscriptions and rock drawings from Ṭūr al‐Qawwās in the Ḥismā desert (Saudi Arabia). These include two Nabataean and three Hismaic inscriptions, in addition to a Hismaic/Nabataean bilingual. The presence of Hismaic and Nabataean texts carved side by side as well as this new ANA/Nabataean bilingual raise the question of the linguistic diversity in northern Arabia and that of the relationships between the Nabataeans a…
Recording Graffiti in the Black Desert: Past, Present, and Future
Between the last century BC and the fourth century AD the nomads of the basalt deserts of southern Syria, Jordan, and northern Saudi Arabia learnt to read and write for the only time in their history before the present day. They covered the desert rocks with tens of thousands of graffiti, which tell us much about their way of life, their society, their relations with each other, with the Romans, Nabataeans, and others, and their personal feelings…
Two More Nabataean Inscriptions from the Syro-Jordanian Ḥarrah desert
This paper publishes two short Nabataean graffiti discovered in 2015 by the team of the OCIANA project at Tell al-ʿAbd and Marabb al-Shurafāʾ, in the Ḥarrah desert, north-eastern Jordan. Despite their brevity, these new texts appear of interest because the Ḥarrah is an area well outside that in which Nabataean inscriptions are normally found, bringing to twelve the number of known texts from that region, taking the Namārah epitaph into account. C…
New Epigraphical Material from Jordan
This article deals with new epigraphical material which was excavated in Wādī Salmā and the area of al-Mushattā in Jordan. The importance of this study lies in the publication of these yet unpublished inscriptions
Recording Graffiti in the Black Desert: Past, Present, and Future
Between the last century BC and the fourth century AD the nomads of the basalt deserts of southern Syria, Jordan, and northern Saudi Arabia learnt to read and write for the only time in their history before the present day. They covered the desert rocks with tens of thousands of graffiti, which tell us much about their way of life, their society, their relations with each other, with the Romans, Nabataeans, and others, and their personal feelings…
Two More Nabataean Inscriptions from the Syro-Jordanian Ḥarrah desert
This paper publishes two short Nabataean graffiti discovered in 2015 by the team of the OCIANA project at Tell al-ʿAbd and Marabb al-Shurafāʾ, in the Ḥarrah desert, north-eastern Jordan. Despite their brevity, these new texts appear of interest because the Ḥarrah is an area well outside that in which Nabataean inscriptions are normally found, bringing to twelve the number of known texts from that region, taking the Namārah epitaph into account. C…
Ancient and modern inscriptions in the basalt desert: News from the 2023 season of the Badia Epigraphic Survey in north‐east Jordan
The Badia Epigraphic Survey (BES) Project was launched in 2015 by Ali Al‐Manaser and Michael C. A. Macdonald and, with two gaps, has been conducting annual surveys in the ḥarra of north‐eastern Jordan ever since. The 2023 survey, like that of 2018, set out to rediscover the cairns at the border between the ḥarra and the ḥamād at which, in the late 1950s, Professor Fred V. Winnett and Gerald Lankester Harding (WH) discovered over 4000 inscriptions…
From Nabataeo-Arabic to Palaeo-Arabic: Two new pre-Islamic graffiti from the Jordanian Ḥarrah
The main objective of this study is to shed light on two recently discovered graffiti, which were identified in the context of the Badia Epigraphic Survey (BES) project. These graffiti are Nabataeo-Arabic and Palaeo-Arabic inscriptions. The research presents an analysis of these inscriptions, which are rarely found in the Jordanian Ḥarrah
Documenting Jordan's epigraphic heritage: Preliminary remarks on newly discovered Safaitic inscriptions
This paper presents some of the new Safaitic inscriptions that were found in 2022 in one of the branches of Wādī al‐Khuḍarī, which is in al‐Ḥarrah approximately 35 km to the northwest of al‐Ruwayshed (H4). Two of these inscriptions bear an attestation for the verb ṣlb , meaning ‘to crucify’. This is the fourth appearance of that verb in Safaitic inscriptions. The verb is thoroughly discussed in this study since the topic of crucifixion in the con…
New Epigraphical Material from Jordan
This article deals with new epigraphical material which was excavated in Wādī Salmā and the area of al-Mushattā in Jordan. The importance of this study lies in the publication of these yet unpublished inscriptions
New Epigraphical Material from Jordan
This article deals with new epigraphical material which was excavated in Wādī Salmā and the area of al-Mushattā in Jordan. The importance of this study lies in the publication of these yet unpublished inscriptions
Recording Graffiti in the Black Desert: Past, Present, and Future
Between the last century BC and the fourth century AD the nomads of the basalt deserts of southern Syria, Jordan, and northern Saudi Arabia learnt to read and write for the only time in their history before the present day. They covered the desert rocks with tens of thousands of graffiti, which tell us much about their way of life, their society, their relations with each other, with the Romans, Nabataeans, and others, and their personal feelings…
Two More Nabataean Inscriptions from the Syro-Jordanian Ḥarrah desert
This paper publishes two short Nabataean graffiti discovered in 2015 by the team of the OCIANA project at Tell al-ʿAbd and Marabb al-Shurafāʾ, in the Ḥarrah desert, north-eastern Jordan. Despite their brevity, these new texts appear of interest because the Ḥarrah is an area well outside that in which Nabataean inscriptions are normally found, bringing to twelve the number of known texts from that region, taking the Namārah epitaph into account. C…
Some New Epigraphy Material from the Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan
The aim of this research is to present a new collection of ANA inscriptions (Safaitic) discovered in 2017 in the Jordanian northeastern Badia in the area of Tall Al-Hafit. The research attempts to add a new meaning to the interpretation of the verb ʿwr in the Safaitic inscriptions. This research also introduces a new inscription bearing a reference to the town of Salkhad, which is located in southern Syria. This is the fifth inscription mentionin…
Epigraphica Dusaria I. Some Nabataean, Hismaic and Hismaic/Nabataean inscriptions with rock drawings from the Ḥismā desert, north‐west of Tabūk (Saudi Arabia)
This paper studies a group of inscriptions and rock drawings from Ṭūr al‐Qawwās in the Ḥismā desert (Saudi Arabia). These include two Nabataean and three Hismaic inscriptions, in addition to a Hismaic/Nabataean bilingual. The presence of Hismaic and Nabataean texts carved side by side as well as this new ANA/Nabataean bilingual raise the question of the linguistic diversity in northern Arabia and that of the relationships between the Nabataeans a…
The Ḥarrah’s epigraphic heritage: New safaitic inscriptions from the Black Desert in north-eastern Jordan and a Greek inscription referring to Zeus Kyrios
This paper publishes six new inscriptions discovered at three different sites within the Ḥarrah desert in north-eastern Jordan during the 2017 and 2018 seasons of the BES (Badia Epigraphic Survey). The first text is a five-line Greek inscription referring to the god Zeus Kyrios ‘Zeus the Lord’ a form of Zeus whose cult was popular in the Ḥawrān and whose name is recognized as masking that of Baalshamin. The text is authored by a person bearing th…
Old Arabic Minutiae II: Greek-Safaitic Bilinguals and Language Contact in the Syro-Arabian Ḥarrah
This article publishes a selection of texts discovered during the 2019 Badia Survey that shed light on the complex interactions between the inhabitants of the desert and settled areas. The inscriptions studied here include two new Safaitic-Greek bilingual texts, two new Greek inscriptions, and a Safaitic text composed by an inhabitant of the city of Bosra in the Ḥawrān
An edition of new Nabataean inscriptions from Umm al-Jimāl
This paper reports on a study of six new Nabataean inscriptions found in Umm al-Jimāl in the north-eastern Badia of Jordan. These inscriptions are a new addition to the corpus of Nabataean inscriptions. The inscriptions were engraved using the square or monumental script
The Harrah's epigraphic heritage: Arabic graffito from the Black Desert in north‐eastern Jordan referring to the Umayyad caliph Hishām b. ʿAbd al‐Malik
The aim of this article is to republish, reread and interpret an Arabic inscription from the Black Desert, north‐eastern Jordan, to shed light on the practice of the dating system used before the Umayyad era, in which the dating of the inscription is linked to a specific event. The inscription was re‐discovered by the present authors during the 2019 Badia Epigraphic Survey. It dates to the death of Hishām, who, as can be assumed, is the Umayyad c…
Glʿd and NGD: Some New Epigraphic Heritage From the Black Desert in North-Eastern Jordan
This study aims at presenting newly-found safaitic inscriptions dis-covered in the Black Desert, north-eastern Jordan by the Badia Epigraphic Survey (BES) during the second (2017) field season at Wādī ar-Ruʿaylah and in Wādī Suwayʿid. Through this paper, we aim to explain the toponyms Glʿd and Ngd in the Safaitic inscriptions, shed light on their interpretation in Safaitic and give translation and some commentary. This paper provides a comparison…
Management of Religious Tourism in the Baptism Site Jordan-South Levant
This study attempts to present and assess, the positive and negative impact of tourism activities and services on the cultural significance of the site, taking into consideration the area status and the site’s particularity and capacities. This will be achieved through a general understanding of why the baptism archaeological site should be pre-served, by evaluating its cultural significance, the existing conditions, defining the causes of deteri…
Documenting Jordan's epigraphic heritage: Preliminary remarks on newly discovered Safaitic inscriptions
This paper presents some of the new Safaitic inscriptions that were found in 2022 in one of the branches of Wādī al‐Khuḍarī, which is in al‐Ḥarrah approximately 35 km to the northwest of al‐Ruwayshed (H4). Two of these inscriptions bear an attestation for the verb ṣlb , meaning ‘to crucify’. This is the fourth appearance of that verb in Safaitic inscriptions. The verb is thoroughly discussed in this study since the topic of crucifixion in the con…
Documenting the ḥarra’s epigraphic heritage: New Palmyrene inscriptions from the Jordanian ḥarra
This paper aims to shed light on the Palmyrene inscriptions discovered during the Badia Epigraphic Survey (BES) from 2015 to 2023, through a comparative and linguistic approach. Additionally, we attempt to understand the reasons for the presence of these inscriptions in the Jordanian Badia, which appears to be related to trade. This is the first comprehensive study of the entire corpus of Palmyrene inscriptions known so far from the Jordanian ḥar…
The Ḥarrah’s Written Heritage: New Palmyrene and Safaitic Inscriptions from the Ḥarrat aš‐Šām Desert, North-Eastern Jordan
Ancient and modern inscriptions in the basalt desert: News from the 2023 season of the Badia Epigraphic Survey in north‐east Jordan
The Badia Epigraphic Survey (BES) Project was launched in 2015 by Ali Al‐Manaser and Michael C. A. Macdonald and, with two gaps, has been conducting annual surveys in the ḥarra of north‐eastern Jordan ever since. The 2023 survey, like that of 2018, set out to rediscover the cairns at the border between the ḥarra and the ḥamād at which, in the late 1950s, Professor Fred V. Winnett and Gerald Lankester Harding (WH) discovered over 4000 inscriptions…
From Nabataeo-Arabic to Palaeo-Arabic: Two new pre-Islamic graffiti from the Jordanian Ḥarrah
The main objective of this study is to shed light on two recently discovered graffiti, which were identified in the context of the Badia Epigraphic Survey (BES) project. These graffiti are Nabataeo-Arabic and Palaeo-Arabic inscriptions. The research presents an analysis of these inscriptions, which are rarely found in the Jordanian Ḥarrah
The Ḥarrah ’s Epigraphic Heritage: New Greek inscriptions from the black desert in north-eastern Jordan
Heritage in Stone: Some Remarks on Newly Discovered Ancient North Arabia -Safaitic- Graffiti From Syro-Arabian Ḥarrah
In this paper, we highlight a remarkable compilation of Ancient North Arabian (ANA) “Safaitic” inscriptions discovered in the Jordanian Badia, specifically in Wādī Swīʿad and the al-Wādī al-Abyyaḍ. Through thorough analysis and comparison with published inscriptions and other Semitic languages, we uncover an array of personal names and diverse terms. These inscriptions vividly portray the daily customs and beliefs of the inhabitants, offering a v…
Colonial-industrial heritage in Jordan: The case of the As-Safawi H5 pumping station
The heritage of the recent and contemporary past has become a major area of study for historical archaeologists, architectural historians and heritage professionals. Yet the industrial heritage of the Middle East has been comparatively little studied despite the very significant role the extraction of oil has played in the region’s modern history: the early history of oil extraction is inseparable from the imperialist and colonial history the reg…
A Dated Paleo‐Arabic Inscription Mentioning Al‐Mundhir ( ʾmndr ) the King
This contribution edits a newly discovered Paleo‐Arabic inscription from Wādī al‐Šuwayṭī in the northeastern Jordanian Ḥarrah. The inscription is dated to the reign of a king called ʾmndr , identified by the authors as the Jafnid ruler Al‐Mundhir III ibn al‐Harith. Some remarks on its implications about Arab rulership and identity are also offered
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