Contributions to the first Session: the Arabian Peninsula

International audienceThis introduction and the following four articles are the first contribution, to Semitica and Classica, of an interdisciplinary project which started in 2019 under the aegis of the research laboratory "Orient et Méditerranée" (UMR 8167, Paris). It is placed under the direction of Laïla Nehmé (CNRS) and Jean-Pierre Van Staevel (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) who are members, in this laboratory, of the "Semitic Worlds" and "Medieval Islam" teams respectively