Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 313 p)
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maps
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0521411726
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0521484553
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9780521411721
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9780521484558
Content:
This book examines how the Byzantine Empire came to lose so much of its territory to Islamic conquerors in the seventh century
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 The problem of Byzantium and the early Islamic conquests; 2 The Byzantine Empire in an era of accelerating change; 3 Difficulties in devising defenses for Syria; 4 The first Muslim penetrations of Byzantine territory; 5 Early tests in southern Palestine; 6 Problems of cohesion: the battle of Jabīya-Yarmūk reconsidered; 7 The brief struggle to save northern Syria and Byzantine Mesopotamia; 8 Byzantium, Armenia, Armenians, and early Islamic conquests
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9 Controversy and confidence in the seventh-century crisisAppendix 1: Author and date of the anti-Jewish treatise; 10 Elements of failure and endurance; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
9780511470615
Additional Edition:
Print version Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests
Language:
English
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