Publisher's Synopsis
This volume focuses on the problems researchers face when using (Byzantine) Greek, Syriac and Arabic sources together for the reconstruction of Near Eastern history from 400-c. 800.
Contributions to the volume set the stage for a critical re-reading and revisionist interpretations of selected sources in the various cultural and literary traditions. The volume thus brings together neighbouring disciplines in ways that shed new light on this vitally important time in history.
"The need for such a project as this has been felt by students ... concerned with the birth of the new faith and the evolution of Islamic society."
(C. Edmund Bosworth)
The four-volume set comprises:
Volume 1: Problems in the Literary Source Material.
Volume 2: Land Use and Settlement Patterns.
Volume 3: States, Resources and Armies.
Volume 4: Elites Old and New
