🧵1/20 Michael Cook, Nicolai Sinai and @ccsahner hosted an excellent array of scholars at the University of Oxford with a conference on paganism within pre-Islamic Arabia. I will post summaries here on a few presentations even though all of the lectures were brilliant!


2/20 Laila Nehmé presented important inscriptional evidence on the development of Nabataeo-Arabic and Palaeo-Arabic. Her work suggests a gradual transition in North-West Arabia from pagan polytheism to various forms of monotheism between the 3rd and 6th centuries CE.