BYZANTINE AND EARLY ISLAMIC NEAR EAST.
Series: VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES; 860
Publisher: VARIORUM/ASHGATE
Published: 2006
Place of publication: ALDERSHOT
Language: und; eng
Description: The main themes in these papers are transition from the world of late antiquity to Islam in a greater Syria which includes modern Lebanon, Palestine/Israel, part of southern Turkey and the modern Syrian Arab Republic, relations between Muslim and Byzantine worlds, and the early development of administrative systems of Islamic state.