The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: States, Resources and Armies (Papers of the Third Workshop on Late Antiquity and Early Islam)

Darwin Press
edited by Averil Cameron
ISBN: 087850107X
price: $39.95  

This book examines the relationships between states in the Near East in the period ca. 565-750 and their military and fiscal organization. These essays explore aspects through which states organized the distribution of resources and structured their armies and they contribute fresh insights into the existing debate on late Roman and Sasanian military organization, raising challenging questions about the degree of central control that existed over the early Muslim armies. The book will interest not only specialists on the period, but also anyone concerned with the formation of states, the relation of states and resources, and fiscal and military factors affecting the state. Contributors include: Jean-Michel Carrié, Michael Whitby, Benjamin Isaac, James Howard-Johnston, Zeev Rubin, Ella Landau-Tasseron, Fred McGraw Donner, Hugh Kennedy, John Haldon, and Ralph-Johannes Lilie.
About the Editor. Averil Cameron is Warden of Keble College, University of Oxford.