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. |
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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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| 306 | |
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Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests Walter E. Kaegi,Walter Emil Kaegi No preview available - 1995 |
Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests Walter E. Kaegi,Walter Emil Kaegi No preview available - 1995 |
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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 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests |
| Authors | Walter E. Kaegi, Walter Emil Kaegi |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0521484553, 9780521484558 |
| Length | 313 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Asia / General History / Europe / General History / Europe / Medieval History / Middle East / General |
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