Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century
Title | Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Irfan Shahîd |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 422 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780884023470 |
This fourth installment of Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century resumes the previous volume's discussion of the Ghassanids by examining their economic, social, and cultural history. First, Irfan Shahîd focuses on the economy of the Ghassanids and presents information on various trade routes and fairs. Second, the author reconstructs Ghassanid daily life by discussing topics as varied as music, food, medicine, the role of women, and horse racing. Shahîd concludes the volume with an examination of cultural life, including descriptions of urbanization, Arabic script, chivalry, and poetry. Throughout the volume, the author reveals the history of a fully developed and unique Christian-Arab culture. Shahîd exhaustively describes the society of the Ghassanids, and their contributions to the cultural environment that persisted in Oriens during the sixth century and continued into the period of the Umayyad caliphate.
Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century
Title | Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century PDF eBook |
Author | ʻIrfān Šahīd |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780884022848 |
Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century
Title | Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Irfan Shahîd |
Publisher | Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | 756 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780884022145 |
Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century
Title | Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century PDF eBook |
Author | ʻIrfān Šahīd |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century
Title | Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Irfan Shahîd |
Publisher | Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | 662 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780884021162 |
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.
Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century
Title | Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Irfan Shahîd |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Arabs |
ISBN | 9780884022145 |
Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fifth Century
Title | Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fifth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Irfan Shahîd |
Publisher | Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | 626 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780884021520 |