Dadanitic - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Dadanitic - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Macdonald, Michael C. A.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061335
Doc. NO	:	ALei1732
Main Entry	:	Macdonald, Michael C. A.
Title & Author	:	Dadanitic - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Macdonald, Michael C. A.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(863 words)
Abstract	:	Dadanitic is the name now given to a group of Ancient North Arabian (ANA) inscriptions centred on the oasis of Dadan (biblical Dedān, modern al-ʿUlā), in northwestern Arabia but with scattered examples elsewhere, principally around the nearby, rival oasis of Taymāʾ. Macdonald (Reflections, 33) showed that the previous division of these inscriptions into “Dedanite” and “Lihyanite” was based on a mistaken analysis of the script. The ANA scripts belong to the “South Semitic script family” (Macdonald, Reflections, 32–6). The Dadanitic alphabet consists of twenty-eight consonants with apparently
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1732.pdf