WebDushara, (Nabataean Arabic: ????????????????????‎ dwšrʾ ‍) also transliterated as Dusares, is a pre-Islamic Arabian god worshipped by the Nabataeans at Petra and Madain Saleh (of which city he was the patron). [citation needed] Safaitic inscriptions imply he was the son of Al-Lat, and that he assembled in the heavens with other gods.He is called "Dushara from Petra" …

WebThe term graffiti originally referred to the inscriptions, figure drawings, and such, found on the walls of ancient sepulchres or ruins, as in the Catacombs of Rome or at Pompeii.Use of the word has evolved to include any graphics applied to surfaces in a manner that constitutes vandalism.. The only known source of the Safaitic language, an ancient form …

WebMany thousands of pre-Classical Arabic inscriptions are attested, in alphabets borrowed from Epigraphic South Arabian alphabets (however, Safaitic and Hismaic are not strictly Arabic, but Ancient North Arabian dialects, and written Nabataean is an Aramaic dialect): . Safaitic (over 13,000; almost all graffiti); Hismaic in the southern parts of central Arabia

WebAls altarabische Gottheiten werden Göttinnen und Götter der altarabischen Religion bezeichnet, die von den arabischen Stämmen verehrt wurden, bevor sie sich zum Islam bekannten. Nach islamischer Tradition waren die ersten Araber zur Zeit von Ibrahim und seinem Sohn Ismail Monotheisten. Später aber hätten sie dem wahren Gott andere …

WebReligion in pre-Islamic Arabia included indigenous Arabian polytheism, ancient Semitic religions, Christianity, Judaism, Mandaeism, and Iranian religions such as Zoroastrianism, and Manichaeism.. Arabian polytheism, the dominant form of religion in pre-Islamic Arabia, was based on veneration of deities and spirits. Worship was directed to various …

WebAncient North Arabian (ANA) is a collection of scripts and possibly a language or family of languages (or dialects) related to Old Arabic that were used in north and central Arabia and south Syria from the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE. The term "Ancient North Arabian" refers to all of the South Semitic scripts except Ancient South Arabian (ASA).

WebClassification. Afar is classified within the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. It is further categorized in the Lowland East Cushitic sub-group, along with Saho and Somali. Its closest relative is the Saho language. Geographic distribution. The Afar language is spoken as a mother tongue by the Afar people in Djibouti, Eritrea, and the Afar Region of Ethiopia.

WebThe Modern South Arabian languages (MSALs), also known as Eastern South Semitic languages, are a group of endangered languages spoken by small populations inhabiting the Arabian Peninsula, in Yemen and Oman, and Socotra Island.Together with the modern Ethiopian Semitic languages, the Western branch, they form the South Semitic sub …

WebThis is a list of writing systems (or scripts), classified according to some common distinguishing features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the language(s) in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

WebCoptic (Bohairic Coptic: ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, timetremǹnkhēmi) is a language family of closely related dialects, representing the most recent developments of the Egyptian language, and historically spoken by the Copts, starting from the third-century AD in Roman Egypt. Coptic was supplanted by Arabic as the primary spoken language of Egypt following the Muslim …