Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 1984
ISBN: 978-0-88402-116-2
Verlag: HARVARD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 656 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1111 g

Reihe: Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Byzantine Studies

The fourth century, the century of Constantine, witnessed the foundation and rise of a new relationship between the Roman Empire and the Arabs. The warrior Arab groups in Oriens became foederati, allies of Byzantium, the Christian Roman empire, and so they remained until the Arab conquests. In Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century, Irfan Shahîd elucidates the birth of the new federation and the rise of its institutional forms and examines the various constituents of federate cultural life: the phylarchate, the episcopate, the beginnings of an Arab Church, an Arabic liturgy, and the earliest attested composition of Arabic poetry. He discusses the participation of the Arab foederati in Byzantium’s wars with her neighbors—the Persians and the Goths—during which those Arab allies, most notably the Tanukhids, contributed to the welfare of the imperium and the ecclesia. In the reign of Valens, the foederati appeared as the defenders of Nicene Orthodoxy: their soldiers fought for it; their stern and uncompromising saint, Moses, championed it; and their heroic and romantic queen, Mavia, negotiated for it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shahid, Irfan

Shahîd, Irfan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Über Autor(innen)

Shahîd, Irfan
Irfan Shahîd is Oman Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Islamic Literature at Georgetown University.