The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
Subtitle: Elites Old and New (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam)
Contributors: John Haldon (Editor); Lawrence I. Conrad (Editor); Averil Cameron (Editor)
Publisher: The Darwin Press, Inc.
Published: December 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780878501441
Subjects: Islamic Empire; Middle East - General; History - General History; Ancient - General; To 622; History; Middle East; History: World; Land settlement; 622-661; Social History; Historiography
First sentence: SOCIETIES ARE COMPLEX PHENOMENA that consist in essence of sets of "social" practices that have the effect of both promoting the physical-biological-reproduction of groups and individuals, on the one hand, and creating institutional patterns of behaviour through which systems of belief and social organisation are maintained and reproduced.