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Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
Vol. 1: Problems in the Literary Source Material
Av Averil Cameron, Lawrence I. Conrad
Inbunden, 2021
2597 kr
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This volume focuses on the problems researchers face when using (Byzantine) Greek, Syriac and Arabic sources together for the reconstruction of Near Eastern history from 400-c. 800. Contributions to the volume set the stage for a critical re-reading and revisionist interpretations of selected …
Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
VoL. 2: Land Use and Settlement Patterns
Av Geoffrey King, Averil Cameron
Inbunden, 2021
2162 kr
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This volume revisits archaeological evidence from Syria, Palestine, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and Egypt describing a variety of land-use patterns and the development of a particular type of settlement across the Near East. 1. Pierre-Louis Gatier, Villages du Proche-Orient protobyzantin (4eme-7eme …
Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
Vol. 3: States, Resources and Armies
Inbunden, 2021
2816 kr
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A comparative analysis of Byzantine, Sasanian and Muslim armies and their impact on state resources. Contributions discuss the organization and financing of the army in the late Roman state, the transformations and continuities of the late Sasanid state and with authority and armies in the early …
Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
Vol. 4: Elites Old and New
Av John Haldon, Lawrence I. Conrad
Inbunden, 2021
2162 kr
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A collection of critical analyses of the structure, historical development, and composition of the elite strata of late Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic societies in the eastern Mediterranean basin. Culture change, economic foundations, political roles and function, social composition, and …
Christian Communities of Palestine from Byzantine to Islamic Rule
An Historical and Archaeological Study
Inbunden, 2021
3002 kr
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An assessment of the nature and social continuity of Christian communities in Palestine from 602-813. By synthesizing literary and archeological evidence, it provides a detailed discussion of disparate historical and archeological data. In the first part, the Sasanian, Byzantine and early Muslim …
Studies in Early Islamic History
With an Introduction by G. R. Hawting
Av Martin Hinds, Jere Bacharach m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1602 kr
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Collection of all of Martin Hinds' (1941-1988) full-length articles which appeared in journals as well as one of his articles for the Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd Edition. Most of the articles have to do with the early period of Islamic history, while two others deal with the early 'Abbasid …
Arabs and Others In Early Islam
Inbunden, 2021
1602 kr
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This work investigates available early Arabic hadith and exegetical literature in order to determine the great complexity of how Arabs, Muslims and Arab-Muslims viewed themselves and members of other communities. In particular, it focuses on the relation between definitions of Arabness and …
Continuatio of the Samaritan Chronicle of Abu l-Fath al-Samiri al-Danafi
Annotated TranslatIon
Inbunden, 2021
1602 kr
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A complete facsimile edition of the previously unedited Samaritan sequel to the Kitab al-Ta'rikh by Abi l-Fath Ibn Abi l-Hasan al-Samiri al-Danafi (d. ca. 1355). The edition of this chronicle photographically reproduces Paris BN Ms. Samaritain 10 (pp. 203-264), which, written in Middle Arabic, …
Earliest Biographies of the Prophet and Their Authors
Av Josef Horovitz, Lawrence I. Conrad
Inbunden, 2021
1602 kr
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Josef Horovitz (1874-1931) wrote this classic monograph a century ago in two parts in German. The editor added footnotes, corrections and the preface, and it is now a book in its own right. The translation was prepared by Marmaduke Pickthall (d. 1936). Lawrence I. Conrad, who re-edited the articles …
Gateway To Hell, A Gateway To Paradise
The North African Response to the Arab Conquest
Inbunden, 2021
1602 kr
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This book is a study of the early history of the lbadiyya in North Africa, a "moderate" movement among the Kharijis which from its base in Basra gradually spread among the Berbers of the Maghrib in the 750s. The Berbers found in this new religious allegiance an attractive ideology with which to …
Narratives of Islamic Origins
The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing
Inbunden, 2021
2162 kr
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How and why did Muslims first come to write their own history? The author argues in this work that the Islamic historical tradition arose not out of idle curiosity, or through imitation of antique models, but as a response to a variety of challenges facing the Islamic community during its first …
Ibn 'Asakir and Early Islamic History
Inbunden, 2021
1602 kr
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Ibn 'Asakir's massive Ta'rikh madinat Dimashq (TMD) is a veritable gold mine of information for our understanding of the first five and one-half centuries of Islamic history. This book offers important insights on the mechanics of Arabic historiography, in particular on biographical sources from …
Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic
Av David Cook
Inbunden, 2021
2536 kr
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A detailed study on the nature of Muslim apocalyptic material in Islam, both Sunni and Shi'i. Taking a transcultural perspective by also discussing Christian and Jewish apocalyptic traditions, it offers in eight studies and three appendices a typology of apocalypses and many new insights into the …
The Late Antique World of Early Islam
Muslims among Christians and Jews in the East Mediterranean
Inbunden, 2021
2536 kr
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This book offers a number of innovative studies on the three main communities of the East Mediterranean lands--Muslims, Jews and Christians--in the aftermath of the seventh-century Arab conquests. It focuses principally on how the Christian majority were affected by and adapted to their loss of …
Place to Go: Contexts of Learning in Baghdad, 750-1000 C.E.
Av Jens Scheiner, Damien Janos
Inbunden, 2021
3002 kr
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This work focuses on the intellectual and educational history of Baghdad in the early 'Abbasid and Bayid periods (8th-10th centuries). It covers a wide range of disciplines taught in the metropolis before the institutionalization of the madrasa system. Among these fields of knowledge are Arabic …
Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
- 4 Volumes Set -
Av Averil Cameron, Lawrence I. Conrad m. fl.
2021
9815 kr
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Volume 1: Problems in the Literary Source Material focuses on the problems researchers face when using (Byzantine) Greek, Syriac and Arabic sources together for the reconstruction of Near Eastern history from 400-ca. 800. Volume 2: Land Use and Settlement Patterns revisits archaeological evidence …
