Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century: pt. 1. Political and military history

Abū Karib allies Anastasius Antioch Arab federate Arab foederati Arab-Byzantine relations Arabic sources Arethas BAFIC BASIC Basileia battle of Callinicum Belisarius Byzan Byzantine army Byzantium campaign capture Chalcedonian chief Choricius Chosroes Christian Chronographia Bonn Chrysos command conferred Constantinople crown Ctesiphon embassy emperor Ethiopian Euphrates Evagrius expedition father foederati foedus Ghassan Ghassanid Ghassanid king Ghassanid phylarch Ḥīra historian History Ibid important inscription involved Jabala John of Ephesus Justin II Justinian Kinda Kindite Lakhmid Lakhmid king later limes lines Ma'add magister militum Magnus Malalas Maurice Menander military Monophysite Mundir Nöldeke Nonnosus Nu'man Oriens Palaestina Tertia Palmyra passage peace period Persian Phoenicia phrase phylarch pre-Islamic present writer Procopius prodosia province Provincia Arabia Qays raids Ramla reference region reign of Justin revolt Roman Samaritans Saracens sixth century South Arabia Stein Summus supreme phylarch Syriac term territory Tha laba Thannūris Theophanes Tiberius tion treaty tribes victory Zacharia καὶ