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Informationen zum Autor Philip Wood is Lecturer in Early Medieval History at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University. Klappentext History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East gathers together the work of distinguished historians and early career scholars with a broad range of expertise to investigate the significance of newly emerged, or recently resurrected, ethnic identities on the borders of the eastern Mediterranean world. Zusammenfassung History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East gathers together the work of distinguished historians and early career scholars with a broad range of expertise to investigate the significance of newly emerged, or recently resurrected, ethnic identities on the borders of the eastern Mediterranean world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Contributors Introduction Map 1. Sophronius of Jerusalem and the End of Roman History Phil Booth 2. Identity, philosophy, and the problem of Armenian history in the sixth century Tara L. Andrews 3. The Chronicle of Seert and Roman ecclesiastical history in the Sasanian world Philip Wood 4. Why were the Syrians interested in Greek philosophy? Daniel King 5. You are What You Read: Qenneshre and the Miaphysite Church in the Seventh Century Jack Tannous 6. The Prophet's City before the Prophet: Ibn Zab?la (d. after 199/814) on Pre-Islamic Medina Harry Munt 7. Topoi and Topography in the histories of al-??ra Adam Talib 8. 'The Crinkly Haired People of the Black Earth'; examining Egyptian identities in Ibn 'Abd al-?akam's Fut?? Hussein Omar 9. Forgetting Ctesiphon: Iran's Pre-Islamic Past, ca. 800-1100 Sarah Savant 10. Legal knowledge and local practices under the early Abbasids Mathieu Tillier Abbreviations Bibliography Index
