History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East

Herausgeber: Wood, Philip

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East gathers together the work of distinguished historians and early career scholars with a broad range of expertise to investigate the significance of newly emerged, or recently resurrected, ethnic identities on the borders of the eastern Mediterranean world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780199915408
• ISBN-10: 0199915407
• Artikelnr.: 36693464

Autorenporträt

Philip Wood is Lecturer in Early Medieval History at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* List of Contributors
* Introduction
* Map
* 1. Sophronius of Jerusalem and the End of Roman History
* Phil Booth
* 2. Identity, philosophy, and the problem of Armenian history in the
sixth century
* Tara L. Andrews
* 3. The Chronicle of Seert and Roman ecclesiastical history in the
Sasanian world
* Philip Wood
* 4. Why were the Syrians interested in Greek philosophy?
* Daniel King
* 5. You are What You Read: Qenneshre and the Miaphysite Church in the
Seventh Century
* Jack Tannous
* 6. The Prophet's City before the Prophet: Ibn Zab?la (d. after
199/814) on Pre-Islamic Medina
* Harry Munt
* 7. Topoi and Topography in the histories of al-??ra
* Adam Talib
* 8. 'The Crinkly Haired People of the Black Earth'; examining Egyptian
identities in Ibn 'Abd al-?akam's Fut??
* Hussein Omar
* 9. Forgetting Ctesiphon: Iran's Pre-Islamic Past, ca. 800-1100
* Sarah Savant
* 10. Legal knowledge and local practices under the early Abbasids
* Mathieu Tillier
* Abbreviations
* Bibliography
* Index