Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
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Arab-Byzantine relations
Author_Hugh Kennedy
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early caliphate governance
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formation of Islamic Mediterranean societies
Gerasa and Scythopolis
Islamic economic history
Islamic Syria
late antiquity transformation
Melkite church adaptation
rural settlement patterns Syria
Uqaylids of Mosul
Product details
- ISBN 9780754659099
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 150 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The essays in this volume deal with the history of the Middle East from c.550 to 1000 AD. There are three main themes: Syria in Late Antiquity and the changes and continuities with the early Islamic period; relations between Muslims and the Byzantine Empire from the 8th to the 11th centuries; and the development of government and the economy in the early caliphate. Throughout there is an emphasis on social and economic trends and the integration of written and archaeological evidence to elucidate the complex developments in this pivotal part of the world. In different ways all the papers discuss the formation of the Islamic world and the way in which the legacy of Antiquity, economic, social and cultural, affected the emergence of what we think of as this "Islamic World". These papers will be of interest to historians of Islam and Byzantium but also western mediaevalists interested in comparing processes of change at opposite ends of the Mediterranean.
Hugh Kennedy formerly Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews, UK.
