books.google.com - Western Palestine is extremely rich in Arabic inscriptions, whose dates range from as early as CE 150 until modern times. Most of the inscriptions date from the Islamic period, for under Islam the country gained particular religious and strategic importance, even though it made up only part of the larger...http://books.google.com/books/about/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Arabicarum_Palaesti.html?id=EPFDU8POrXIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCorpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (CIAP).
