Author: Irfan ShahîdPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884021520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fifth Century
Author: Irfan ShahîdPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884021520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fifth Century
Author: Irfan ShaidByzantium and the Arabs in the Fifth Century
Author: Irfan ShahidFrom Rome to Byzantium
Author: Michael GrantPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113516679X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Byzantium was dismissed by Gibbon, in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,and his Victorian successors as a decadent, dark, oriental culture, given up to intrigue, forbidden pleasure and refined cruelty. This great empire, founded by Constantine as the seat of power in the East began to flourish in the fifth century AD, after the fall of Rome, yet its culture and history have been neglected by scholars in comparison to the privileging of interest in the Western and Roman Empire. Michael Grant's latest book aims to compensate for that neglect and to provide an insight into the nature of the Byzantine Empire in the fifth century; the prevalence of Christianity, the enormity and strangeness of the landscape of Asia Minor; and the history of invasion prior to the genesis of the empire. Michael Grant's narrative is lucid and colourful as always, lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps. He successfully provides an examination of a comparatively unexplored area and constructs the history of an empire which rivals the former richness and diversity of a now fallen Rome.
Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century
Author: Irfan ShahîdPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022848
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century is devoted to frontier studies and to the structures of the Arab federates of Byzantium. It deals mainly with the Ghassanids of Oriens in the sixth century, a time of transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. The focus of this study is on the military, religious, and civil structures of the Ghassanids. The detailed study of these buildings contributes to our understanding of Byzantine provincial art and architecture in Oriens, as they were adopted by the federate Arabs and later adapted to their own use. As monuments of Christian architecture, these federate structures constitute the missing link in the development of Arab architecture in the region--the link between the earlier pagan (Nabataean and Palmyrene) and later Muslim (Umayyad).
Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century
Author: Irfan ShahîdPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884021162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
This book elucidates the birth of the new relationship between the Roman Empire and the Arabs and the rise of its institutional forms. Shahîd discusses the participation of the Arab foederati in Byzantium's wars with her neighbors--the Persians and the Goths--during which those Arab allies contributed to the welfare of the imperium and the ecclesia.
The Age of Attila
Author: Colin Douglas GordonPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The author intends in his book "to give the reader with little or no Greek a chance to see for himself how the writers nearest to the events described their age," the fifth century, and specifically the dealings of the West and East Roman courts with the barbarians. For this purpose, he has translated those fragments of Olympiodorus, Priscus, Malchus, Candidus, and John of Antioch which have an immediate bearing on political events, distributed them over six chapters, and connected them with brief introductions and comments. Notes contain cross references, references to other ancient and a few modern writings, and textual criticism. The so-called general reader is bound to get a one-sided picture of the fifth century, unless he fits the fragments into the one he has already drawn for himself from Gibbon, Bury, Seeck, or Stein. Used with caution, as a supplement to textbooks, the volume may fulfill its purpose.
Byzantine Love
Author: Charles H. ThompsonByzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century II
Author: Irfan ShahîdPublisher:
ISBN: 9780884023470
Category : Arabs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs
Author: Nadia Maria El-CheikhPublisher: Harvard CMES
ISBN: 9780932885302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium, tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of warfare, contact, and exchanges. Including previously inaccessible material on the Arabic textual tradition on Byzantium, this investigation shows the significance of Byzantium to the Arab Muslim establishment and their appreciation of various facets of Byzantine culture and civilization. The Arabic-Islamic representation of the Byzantine Empire stretching from the reference to Byzantium in the Qur'an until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 is considered in terms of a few salient themes. The image of Byzantium reveals itself to be complex, non-monolithic, and self-referential. Formulating an alternative appreciation to the politics of confrontation and hostility that so often underlies scholarly discourse on Muslim-Byzantine relations, this book presents the schemes developed by medieval authors to reinterpret aspects of their own history, their own self-definition, and their own view of the world.