Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East – serie

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6 produkter

1. 

   Christians and Others in the Umayyad State

   Av Antoine Borrut, Fred M Donner

   Häftad, 2016

   417 kr

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   The papers in this first volume of the new Oriental Institute series LAMINE are derived from a conference entitled "Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians in the Umayyad State," held at the University of Chicago on June 17-18, 2011. The goal of the conference was to address a simple question: Just what …

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   Damascus Psalm Fragment

   Middle Arabic and the Legacy of Old Higazi

   Av Ahmad Al-Jallad

   Häftad, 2020

   669 kr

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   The Damascus Palm Fragment investigates Arabic's transformative historical phase, the passage from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period, through a new approach. It asks, What would Arabic's early history look like if we wrote it based on the documentary evidence? The book frames this question …

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   Scripts and Scripture

   Writing and Religion in Arabia circa 500-700 CE

   Av Fred M. Donner, Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee

   Häftad, 2022

   713 kr

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   How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qur'an, emerge from western Arabia at a time when the region was religiously fragmented and lacked a clearly established tradition of writing to render the Arabic language? The studies in this volume, the proceedings of a scholarly conference, address …

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   Armenian Futuh Narrative

   Lewond's Eighth-Century History of the Caliphate

   Av Sergio La Porta, Alison M. Vacca

   Häftad, 2024

   740 kr

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   The History of the Armenian priest Łewond is an important source for the history of early Islamic rule and the only contemporary chronicle of second/eighth-century caliphal rule in Armenia. This volume presents a diplomatic edition and new English translation of Łewond's text, which describes …

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   Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 CE by Strategius of Mar Saba

   Av Sean W. Anthony, Stephen J. Shoemaker

   Häftad, 2025

   522 kr

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   In 614 CE, the armies of Sasanid Persia shocked the Eastern Roman Empire when they besieged and captured Jerusalem, taking a large swath of its population into captivity along with the city's patriarch and the famed relic of the True Cross. This astounding Persian victory over Christian Jerusalem …

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   Connecting Polemic in the Medieval Mediterranean

   The Correspondence of Leo III and 'Umar II

   Av Thomas E Burman, Nuria de Castilla m. fl.

   Häftad, 2026

   680 kr

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   This book offers the first comprehensive edition and translation of all surviving versions—Latin, Armenian, Arabic, and Aljamiado—of the polemical correspondence attributed to the Byzantine emperor Leo III and the Umayyad caliph 'Umar II.Far from simple diplomatic communication, these letters form …