Books on Pre-Islamic Arabia

by AcidicPineassholes

I am currently reading Robert G. Hoyland's "Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam" and have become completely fascinated with the subject. Can anyone suggest some further reading? Thank you, in advance.

judasken

I found the book for free and will try it. https://archive.org/details/ArabiaAndTheArabs

judasken

There are other books by Robert G. Hoyland on Pre-Islam in Arabia.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/497483.Robert_G_Hoyland

shlin28

Great choice with Hoyland's book! To get a sense of the political history of Arabia, check out G. Bowersock's The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam (2013), a wonderful study of the war over Yemen between the Jewish kingdom of Himyar and Christian Ethiopia in the sixth century (with lots of meddling from the Romans and the Persians of course!), as well as G. Fisher's Between Empires: Arabs, Romans, and Sasanians in Late Antiquity (2013), which will give you a broad overview of how Arabia was connected with the wider world.