Rome, Persia, and Arabia - Shaping the Middle East From Pompey to Muhammad

List of contents

1. Writing the History of (the) Pre-Islamic Arabs 2. Between Rome and Parthia 3. Enemies, Allies, and Pretenders, ad 211–500 4. Arab Statesmen in the Sixth Century 5. Legacy

About the author

Greg Fisher is a graduate of the University of Oxford, UK, and the author and editor of numerous works on the ancient world including Between Empires (2011), Arabs and Empires before Islam (2015), and Hannibal and Scipio (2015).

Summary

Rome, Persia, and Arabia traces the enormous impact that the Great Powers of antiquity exerted on Arabia and the Arabs, between the arrival of Roman forces in the Middle East in 63 bc and the death of the Prophet Muhammad in ad 632.

Additional text

'This is the definitive political history of the Arabs before Islam. Fisher deftly describes how the emergent Arab tribes navigated the complex political landscape between the Roman, Parthian, and Persian Empires. Even though I’ve studied this topic for years, I learned something new on almost every single page. Anyone interested in Middle Eastern history should read this book.' - Walter D. Ward, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Product details

• Authors: Greg Fisher, Greg (University of California Santa Barba Fisher, Greg (University of California Santa Barbara Fisher, Fisher Greg
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780415728805
• ISBN: 978-0-415-72880-5
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula, Middle Eastern history, Arabian Peninsula, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory