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The Byzantine and early Islamic Near East / Hugh Kennedy.
| Author/creator | Kennedy, Hugh |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Aldershot [England] ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, ©2006. |
| Description | 1 volume (various pagings) : maps ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Variorum collected studies series ; CS860 Collected studies CS860. ^A355371 |
| Contents | From Polis to Madina: urban change in late Antique and early Islamic Syria -- The last century of Byzantine Syria: a reinterpretation -- Gerasa and Scythopolis: power and patronage in the Byzantine cities of Bilāa al-Sham -- The impact of Muslim rule on the pattern of rural settlement in Syria -- From Antiquity to Islam in the cities of al-Andalus and al-Mas̲h̲riq -- The Melkite church from the Islamic conquest to the Crusades: continuity and adaptation in the Byzantine legacy -- Antioch: from Byzantium to Islam and back again -- The Arab-Byzantine frontier in the eighth and ninth centuries: military organisation and society in the borderlands (with Dr John Haldon) -- Byzantine-Arab diplomacy in the Near East from the Islamic conquests to the mid eleventh century -- Central government and provincial élites in the early 'Abbāsid caliphate -- Military pay and the economy of the early Islamic state -- Caliphs and their chroniclers in the middle Abbasid period (third/ninth century) -- The Uqaylids of Mosul: the origins and structure of a nomad dynasty -- The decline and fall of the first Muslim empire. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-198) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006042771 |
| ISBN | 0754659097 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780754659099 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | DF547.I742 K464 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |