Byzantium and the Early Islamic ConquestsThis 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. |
Contents
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 JābiyaYarmūk 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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Abū Ajnādayn al-Shām al-Tabarī Anastasius the Sinaite Anatolia Antioch Arab tribes Arabic sources areas Areopolis Armenian Azdī Balādhurī 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 Futūh Gaza Ghassanids Goeje Greek Heraclius Hist historian Ibn Asākir important Iraq Islamic Jābiya Jābiya-Yarmūk Jerusalem late Roman Ma'ab Macler Mesopotamia Michael the Syrian military commanders Monophysite Mu'awiya Mu'ta Muhammad Muslim conquests Muslim invasions Muslim sources Muslim traditions northern Syria numbers Palestine Persians population probably problems raids region reports resistance Sassanian Sebeos seventh century Shahrbaraz Strategikon strategy Syria Ta'rīkh Theoph Theophanes Theophylact Simocatta trans truce Umar victory W. E. Kaegi Wādī'l walled towns warfare Yarmūk
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References to this book
Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World, 565-1204 John F. Haldon No preview available - 1999 |