Kaegi, Byzantium and Early Islamic Conquests (1996)
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Abbreviation
Kaegi, Byzantium and Early Islamic Conquests (1996)
Form of publication
Book
Walter E. Kaegi, Byzantium and Early Islamic Conquests Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York 1996)
ISBN / ISSN
ISBN 978-0521484558
First edition
Date of publication of first edition
1992
Data
“This is a study of how and why the Byzantine Empire lost many of its most valuable provinces to Islamic conquerors in the seventh century, provinces that included Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia and Armenia. It investigates conditions on the eve of those conquests, mistakes in Byzantine policy toward the Muslims, 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 some terrible losses the Byzantine government achieved some intellectual rationalization 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.” Total pages 314.
Key words
Antioch / Antakya.
Arabian Peninsula.
Arabs.
Armenians.
Beduin.
Bosra, Syria.
Byzantine cities.
Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine institutions, Early Byzantine period.
Byzantine Middle East.
Byzantine society.
Byzantine sources.
Caliphate of Damascus.
Christians of the East.
Commerce.
Constantinople / Polis / Istanbul.
Cyprus.
Damascus.
Early Islam.
Early Islamic period.
Euphrates, river.
Gaza Strip.
Ghassanids.
Golan Heights.
Heraclius, emperor.
Holy Land.
Homs / Emesa.
Iraq.
Islam.
Jerusalem.
Jordan, river.
Mediterranean.
Mesopotamia.
Monophysites / Monophysitism.
Muslims.
Palestine.
Pella, Jordan.
Sasanids / Sassanian Persians.
Syria, Byzantine period.
Taurus, mountain range.