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Between empires : Arabs, Romans, and Sasanians in late antiquity
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An examination of the complex inter-relationships between the Roman and Sasanid Empires, and some of their Arab allies and neighbours, during the last century before the emergence of Islam. Greg Fi...
An examination of the complex inter-relationships between the Roman and Sasanid Empires, and some of their Arab allies and neighbours, during the last century before the emergence of Islam. Greg Fisher stresses the importance of a Near East dominated by Rome and Iran for the formation of early concepts of Arab identity.
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- Creator
- Greg Fisher
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- Books
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- English
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- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011
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- xvi, 254 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780199599271, 0199599270, 9780199679317, 0199679312, 9780191724992
- OCLC
- ocn671709695
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Oxford, 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-243) and index.
- Aspects of Arab Christianisation -- Empires, clients, and politics -- Arabic, culture, and ethnicity -- Between empires : the Jafnids, the Naṣrids, and late antiquity -- The Jafnids and history in East and West
Subjects
- Sassanids.
- Iran -- Relations -- Rome.
- Rome -- Relations -- Iran.
- Iran -- History -- To 640.
- Arabs -- History -- To 622.
- Ghassanids.
- Ghassān -- Relations -- Byzantine Empire.
- Byzantine Empire -- Relations -- Ghassān.
- Ghassān -- Relations -- Iran.
- Iran -- Relations -- Ghassān.
- Arab countries -- Relations -- Byzantine Empire.
- Byzantine Empire -- Relations -- Arab countries.
- Arab countries -- Relations -- Iran.
- Iran -- Relations -- Arab countries.
- Middle East -- History -- To 622.