The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate : AD 500-1000 [1 ed.] 9781617975370, 9789774165443

The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate: AD 500-1000 [1 ed.] 9789774165443, 9774165446

This book examines the historic process traditionally referred to as the fall of Rome and rise of Islam from the perspec

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The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate: AD 500-1000 9781617973505, 9789774165443, 1617973505

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From Rome to Byzantium AD 363 to 565: The Transformation of Ancient Rome 9780748631759

Between the deaths of the Emperors Julian (363) and Justinian (565), the Roman Empire underwent momentous changes. Most

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From Rome to Byzantium AD 363 to 565 9780748668359, 9780748627905, 9780748627912, 9780748631759, 0748668357

A. D. Lee charts the significant developments which marked the transformation of Ancient Rome into medieval Byzantium.

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Piety and Plague: From Byzantium to the Baroque 9780271090771

Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the European continent, from earliest antiquity through the fir

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People of the Red Sea: Proceedings of Red Sea Project II Held in the British Museum October 2004 9781841718330, 9781407328294

15 papers from Phase II of Red Sea Project held in the British Museum October 2004, representing a wide-ranging historic

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The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate AD 661-750 [2 ed.] 0415240735, 9780415240734

Gerald Hawting's book has long been acknowledged as the standard introductory survey of this complex period in Arab

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The First Dynasty of Islam : The Umayyad Caliphate AD 661-750 9780415240727

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Early Islamic Institutions: Administration and Taxation from the Caliphate to the Umayyads and (Abbāsids 9780755608355, 9781780766485

The rapid expansion of the early Islamic world is conventionally ascribed to a combination of perceptive military leader

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Sea-Brothers: The Tradition of American Sea Fiction from Moby-Dick to the Present 9781512814309

Sea-Brothers offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature. On the basis

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