With this volume, Irfan Shahid continues the theme of his two publications of 1984: Rome and the Arabs: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Byzantium and the Arabs, and Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century, which together create a landmark in historical scholarship. With a fourth and final volume, the impending two-part study Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Shahid will have produced the first comprehensive study of the place of the Arabs in the late Antique and early Medieval world up to the coming of Islam.
To be sure, his actual focus is a special one, subject ...
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