The God and the Goddess: Parallel histories of Allāh and Allāt in pre-Islamic Arabia.

This talk will examine the emergence of two pre-Islamic Arabian theonyms, Allāh and Allāt, tracking their development across the epigraphic record spanning more than a millennium before the rise of Islam and across the Peninsula.

As a Lunch Table event, members of the Cluster are invited to join Ahmad for lunch in Hall at 12.30. The talk, beginning at 1.15 in the Levett Room, is catered with tea/coffee and cakes (all welcome).