Byzantium and the Early Islamic ConquestsCambridge University Press, 30/03/1995 - 313 páginas This book presents an enquiry into a fundamental historical problem in early Byzantine history: why the Byzantine Empire failed to contain emergent Islam in the new religion's initial years, and in particular how and why the Byzantines first lost Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Armenia before partial recovery. |
Índice
The Byzantine Empire in an era of accelerating change | 26 |
Difficulties in devising defenses for Syria | 47 |
The first Muslim penetrations of Byzantine territory | 66 |
Early tests in southern Palestine | 88 |
the battle of JäbiyaYarmük rec | 112 |
The brief struggle to save northern Syria and Byzantine | 147 |
Byzantium Armenia Armenians and early Islamic con | 181 |
Controversy and confidence in the seventhcentury crisis | 205 |
Author and date of the antiJewish treatise | 231 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abū Ajnādayn al-Shām al-Ṭabarī Anastasius the Sinaite Anatolia Antioch Arab tribes Arabic sources areas Areopolis Armenian Azdī Baladhuri battle Bedrosian Boor Breydy Byzantine armies Byzantine authority Byzantine commanders Byzantine defense Byzantine Empire Byzantine forces Byzantine Mesopotamia Byzantine military Byzantine soldiers Byzantine territory Byzantine troops Byzantion Byzantium Caetani Caliph Chabot Christian Arab Chron Chronicle civilian Constans Constans II Constantinople contemporary Damascus Dathin defeat Disputatio early Egypt emperor Eutychius fighting frontier Futūḥ Gaza Ghassanids Goeje Greek Heraclius Hist historian History Ibn Asākir important Iraq Islamic Jābiya Jerusalem late Roman Ma'ab Macler Mesopotamia Michael the Syrian military commanders Monophysite Mu'awiya Mu'ta Muḥammad Muslim conquests Muslim invasions Muslim sources Muslim traditions negotiations northern Syria numbers Palestine Persians population probably problems raids region reports resistance Sassanian Sayf Sebeos seventh century Shahrbaraz Strategikon strategy Syria Theoph Theophanes Theophylact Simocatta trans truce Umar victories W. E. Kaegi Wādī'l walled towns warfare Yarmuk
Passagens conhecidas
Página 305 - Die Kämpfe der Araber mit den Romäern in der Zeit der Umaijiden. Nachrichten der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philol.-hist.
Referências a este livro
Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World, 565-1204 John F. Haldon Pré-visualização indisponível - 1999 |