Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-88402-428-6
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 744 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 235 mm

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 1, Part 1: Political and Military History is devoted to the main Arabian tribes that were federates of the Byzantine Roman Empire. In the early sixth century, Constantinople shifted its Arab alliance from the Salihids to the Kindites and especially the Ghassanids, who came to dominate Arab-Byzantine relations through the reign of Heraclius. Arranged chronologically, this study, the first in-depth account of the Ghassanids since the nineteenth century, draws widely from original sources in Greek, Syriac, and Arabic. Irfan Shahîd traces in detail the vicissitudes of the relationship between the Romans and the Ghassanids, and argues for the Ghassanid’s extensive role in the defense of the Byzantine Empire in the east.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shahîd, Irfan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Byzantinische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam

Über Autor(innen)

Shahîd, Irfan
Irfan Shahîd (1926–2016) was Associate Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks and Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and was Oman Professor of Arabic and Islamic Literature Emeritus at Georgetown University.