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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter Emil Kaegi |
ISBN: | 0521411726 9780521411721 0521484553 9780521484558 |
OCLC Number: | 23971577 |
Description: | xiii, 313 pages : map ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The problem of Byzantium and the early Islamic conquests -- The Byzantine Empire in an era of accelerating change -- Difficulties in devising defences for Syria -- The first Muslim penetrations of Byzantine territory -- Early tests in southern Palestine -- Problems of cohesion: the battle of Jabiya-Yarmuk reconsidered -- The brief struggle to save northern Syria and Byzantine Mesopotamia -- Byzantium, Armenia, Armenians, and early Islamic conquests -- Controversy and confidence in the seventh-century crisis -- Elements of failure and endurance. |
Responsibility: | Walter E. Kaegi. |
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'An important contribution to the debate on the Arab Islamic conquests of the eastern Roman provinces in the seventh century.' John Haldon, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society "It is good to see military history written competently by someone who knows the sources well and, what is more, has visited the sites of the major conflicts; Kaegi is good on the importance of landscape, strategy and confusion in deciding the outcome....[A] robust approach...." Hugh Kennedy, Times Literary Supplement "It is refreshing to read about the conquests from a Byzantinist's perspective and by one who is also familiar with the Arabic sources....Kaegi has presented a thorough and balanced view of the early Islmaic conquests of Byzantine territories. His assertion, based on a judicious reading of the sources, that these conquests were not inevitable is a welcome addition to the scholarship on this period." Ara Dostourian, Journal of the Society for Armenian State "...will remain for many years to come the fundamental work on the subject and will be the foundation on which any future historian of the conquests will have to build." Journal of the American Oriental Society Read more...


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