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Byzantium and the early Islamic conquests / Walter E. Kaegi

Author
Kaegi, Walter Emil
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) : map
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Contents
The problem of Byzantium and the early Islamic conquests -- The Byzantine Empire in an era of accelerating change -- Difficulties in devising defences for Syria -- The first Muslim penetrations of Byzantine territory -- Early tests in southern Palestine -- Problems of cohesion: the battle of Jabiya-Yarmuk reconsidered -- The brief struggle to save northern Syria and Byzantine Mesopotamia -- Byzantium, Armenia, Armenians, and early Islamic conquests -- Controversy and confidence in the seventh-century crisis -- Elements of failure and endurance.
Summary
"This is a study of how and why the Byzantine Empire lost many of its most valuable provinces to Islamic (Arab) conquerors in the seventh century, provinces which included Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Armenia. It investigates conditions on the eve of those conquests, mistakes in Byzantine policy toward the Arabs, the course of the military campaigns, and the problem of local official and civilian collaboration with the Muslims. It also seeks to explain how, after terrible losses, the Byzantine government achieved some intellectual rationalisation of its disasters and began the complex process of transforming and adapting its fiscal and military institutions and political controls in order to prevent further disintegration."
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ISBN
9781461949084 (electronic bk.)
1461949084 (electronic bk.)
9780511470615 (e-book)
0511470614 (e-book)
0521411726
9780521411721
9780521484558 (paperback)
0521484553 (paperback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-305) and index.
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