Lotfi Abd al-Wahhab
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Lotfi Abd al-Wahhab Yahya (also known as Lotfi Abd al-Wahhab) is a modern historian specializing in ancient history and pre-Islamic Arabia, best known for his monograph al-Arab fi al-Usur al-Qadima (The Arabs in Ancient Times) .
Scholarly Contribution
Abd al-Wahhab's scholarship focuses on the civilization and geography of ancient Arabia within the wider context of ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean civilizations . In al-Arab fi al-Usur al-Qadima, he examined the role of the Arabian Peninsula in the emergence of early civilizations, critically evaluating hypotheses regarding the origins of the Semitic peoples and analyzing the geographic and environmental factors that shaped early Arabian life .
He also contributed research on classical historiography concerning the region, authoring the study al-Jazira al-Arabiyya fi al-Masadir al-Klasikiyya (Arabia in Classical Sources), presented at the First International Symposium on Studies in the History of Arabia held in Riyadh in 1977 .
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al-Arab fi al-Usur al-Qadima (The Arabs in Ancient Times) is a historical study of pre-Islamic Arabia and ancient Arab civilization, published by Dar al-Nahda al-Arabiyya. Designed as a civilizational introduction rather than an exhaustive chronological narrative, the work frames roughly sixteen centuries of Arab history as an autonomous historical entity instead of merely a prologue to the Islamic era.