Cover illustration: Left: Yatib site petroglyphs, depicting according to the accompanying Thamudic inscription a lion. From: Figure 4 (p. 47) in Bednarik, Robert G. 2017. Scientific Investigations into Saudi Arabian Rock Art: a review. Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 17 (4): 43–59. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.893192. Copyright © 2017 MAA. Open Access. CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Printed in Greece. All rights reserved. Reproduced by courtesy of the author and Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry. Note that about 8% of the image along the vertical axis has been cropped along its upper edge, to accommodate the cover design. Right: partial genealogy of the Asad (“lion”) segment of the pre-Islamic Rabīʿah ibn Nizār tribal confederacy; cf. Ibn Ḥazm al-Andalusī, Ǧamharat ansāb al-ʿarab (A Collection of the Genealogies of the Arabs) 1948: 275–78, 283, 285, 290–91.
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Names: Young, William Charles, 1951– author.
Title: The animal names of the Arab ancestors : explaining the non-human names of Arab kinship groups / William C. Young.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024. | Series: Handbook oriental studies. Sect. 1: Near & Middle East, 0169-9423 ; volume 178 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023049597 (print) | LCCN 2023049598 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004690363 (v. 1 ; hardback) | ISBN 9789004690370 (v. 1 ; ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Arabic language—Etymology—Names. | Names, Arabic. | Animals—Symbolic aspects. | Bedouins—Arab countries—History.
Classification: LCC PJ6173 .Y68 2024 (print) | LCC PJ6173 (ebook) | DDC 492.72—dc23/eng/20231204
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