Between empires : Arabs, Romans, and Sasanians in late antiquity / Greg Fisher.
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford classical monographsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. Description: xvi, 254 p. : maps ; 23 cmISBN: 9780199599271; 0199599270Other title: Arabs, Romans, and Sasanians in late antiquitySubject(s): Sassanids | Arabs -- History -- To 622 | Ghassanids | Iran -- Relations -- Rome | Rome -- Relations -- Iran | Iran -- History -- To 640 | Ghassān -- Relations -- Byzantine Empire | Byzantine Empire -- Relations -- Ghassān | Ghassān -- Relations -- Iran | Iran -- Relations -- Ghassān | Arab countries -- Relations -- Byzantine Empire | Byzantine Empire -- Relations -- Arab countries | Arab countries -- Relations -- Iran | Iran -- Relations -- Arab countries | Middle East -- History -- To 622Genre/Form: HistoryLOC classification: DS286 | .F57 2011Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-243) and index.
Aspects of Arab Christianisation -- Empires, clients, and politics -- Arabic, culture, and ethnicity -- Between empires : the Jafnids, the Naṣrids, and late antiquity -- The Jafnids and history in East and West.
An examination of the complex inter-relationships between the Roman and Sasanid Empires, and some of their Arab allies and neighbours, during the last century before the emergence of Islam. Greg Fisher stresses the importance of a Near East dominated by Rome and Iran for the formation of early concepts of Arab identity.