The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: Problems in the Literary Source Material (Papers of the First Workshop on Late Antiquity and Early Islam)

Darwin Press
edited by Averil Cameron and Lawrence I. Conrad
ISBN: 0878500804
price: $29.95  

This book is a critical analysis of the basic written material essential to an understanding of the earliest phase of the transition from Byzantine to Islamic culture in the eastern Mediterranean provinces. Specialist scholars address the issues of cultural change and historical reliability by direct comparison and analysis of the written sources. This book will be of special interest to scholars and specialists in Byzantine history, later Greek theology, Greek historiography and Byzantine literature, Syriac literature and history, apocalyptic literature and early medieval culture, Arabic literary development, the emergence of Islam, comparative literature (medieval), the history of Palestine and Syria, and religion. Contributors include: Michael Whitby, Averil Cameron, John Haldon, G.J. Reinink, Han J.W. Drijvers, Wadad al-Qadi, Stefan Leder, and Lawrence I. Conrad.