History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East

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History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East

History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East gathers together the work of distinguished historians and early career scholars with a broad range of expertise to investigate the significance of newly emerged, or recently resurrected, ethnic identities on the borders of the eastern Mediterranean world. It focuses on the "long late antiquity" from the eve of the Arab conquest of the Roman East to the formation of the Abbasid caliphate. The first half of the book offers papers on the Christian Orient on the cusp of the Islamic invasions. These papers discuss how Christians negotiated the end of Roman power, whether in the selective use of the patristic past to create confessional divisions or the emphasis of the shared philosophical legacy of the Greco-Roman world. The second half of the book considers Muslim attempts to negotiate the pasts of the conquered lands of the Near East, where the Christian histories of Hira or Egypt were used to create distinctive regional identities for Arab settlers. Like the first half, this section investigates the redeployment of a shared history, this time the historical imagination of the Qu'ran and the era of the first caliphs. All the papers in the volume bring together studies of the invention of the past across traditional divides between disciplines, placing the re-assessment of the past as a central feature of the long late antiquity. As a whole, History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East represents a distinctive contribution to recent writing on late antiquity, due to its cultural breadth, its interdisciplinary focus, and its novel definition of late antiquity itself.

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272

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Table of Contents

Sophronius of Jerusalem and the end of roman history / Phil Booth
Identity, philosophy, and the problem of Armenian history in the sixth century / Tara Andrews
The chronicle of Seert and Roman ecclesiastical history in the Sasanian world / Philip Wood
Why were the Syrians interested in Greek philosophy? / Dan King
You are what you read: Qenneshre and the Miaphysite church in the seventh century / Jack Tannous
The prophet's city before the prophet: Ibn Zabala (d. after 199/814) on pre-Islamic Medina / Harry Munt
Topoi and topography in the histories of al-?ira / Adam Talib
"The crinkly haired people of the black earth"; examining Egyptian identities in Ibn 'abd al-?akam's futu? / Hussein Omar
Forgetting Ctesiphon: Iran's pre-Islamic past, ca. 800-1100 / Sarah Savant
Legal knowledge and local practices under the early Abbasids / Mathiew Tillier.

Edition Notes

This volume arose out of a seminar series organised at the Classics Centre of Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 2009 and a subsequent workshop in 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Oxford, New York
Series
Oxford studies in late antiquity

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
956/.013
Library of Congress
DS42.4 .H57 2010, DS42.4.H57 2010, DS42.4 .H57 2013

Contributors

Editor
Philip Wood

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
272

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25361779M
ISBN 10
0199915407
ISBN 13
9780199915408
LCCN
2012023595
OCLC/WorldCat
796933174

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