“People from the Desert. Pre-Islamic Arabs in History and Culture” provides a collection of text-based studies that investigate different aspects of the history, culture and literature of the pre-Islamic period. It presents detailed studies of the poetry of Imruʼl-Qays, al-Shanfara, ʻAntarah, al-Khansaʼ and more. It also offers in-depth studies of We pre-Islamic religions, narratives, trade, women, the concepts of life and death and much more.