Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century |
Contents
I | 3 |
II | 11 |
The Subscriptions of the Archimandrites of Arabia 824 | 17 |
IV | 19 |
II | 25 |
II | 32 |
Outside the Limes 726 | 38 |
III | 40 |
The Accession of Mundir 569 | 339 |
The LakhmidGhassanid Conflict 569570 | 340 |
The Souring of GhassanidByzantine Relations | 346 |
The Withdrawal of the Ghassanids 572575 | 356 |
The Persian Conquest of South Arabia 570 | 364 |
The CoRulership of Tiberius 574578 | 372 |
The Ghassanid Return to the Byzantine Fold | 373 |
The Reign of Tiberius | 377 |
The Second Phase 569578 | 43 |
V | 48 |
XI | 50 |
Introduction | 61 |
The Return of the Ghassanids | 62 |
The Expedition against Mundir Winter 528 | 70 |
Thannūris the Battle of the Ditch Summer 528 | 76 |
Mundirs Invasion of Syria Prima March 529 | 79 |
The Samaritan Revolt of 529 | 82 |
The Basileia of Arethas 529 | 95 |
Ghassanid and Byzantine | 109 |
The Usays Inscription | 117 |
Abū Karib | 124 |
The Battle of Daras 530 | 131 |
XVIII | 132 |
The Battle of Callinicum 531 | 134 |
The Embassy of Julian | 144 |
Byzantium and Kinda | 148 |
Byzantium and Maadd the Maddenoi | 160 |
Saracen Pockets in the Three Palestines | 166 |
Malalas on the Federate Arabs | 168 |
Justinian in Oriens | 171 |
The Two Dukes | 172 |
Zacharia of Mytilene on Timostratus and Jabala | 174 |
Maadd | 175 |
B Rubin on the Battle of Callinicum | 177 |
The Vandal War 533534 | 180 |
Choricius of Gaza | 182 |
The Saracen Invasion of Euphratensis 536 | 194 |
Novel 102 on Arabia | 196 |
Edict 4 on Phoenicia Libanensis | 198 |
Novel 103 on Palestine | 200 |
ByzantineGhassanid Relations in 536 | 206 |
The Second Persian War 540545 | 209 |
The Campaigns of the War and the Prodosia Theme | 219 |
The Assyrian Campaign of 541 | 226 |
The Campaign of 542 | 230 |
Procopius and Mundir | 231 |
An Arabic Ekphrasis of the Battle of Antioch | 235 |
The War of the Federates 546561 | 236 |
The First Phase 5454655051 | 237 |
The Second Phase 5505155556 | 240 |
The Vita Euthymii | 251 |
The Third Phase 55657561 | 255 |
Concluding Remarks | 261 |
B Rubin on the LakhmidGhassanid War | 262 |
E The Last Years of the Reign 561565 | 266 |
Arab Christianity in Sinai | 279 |
Arethas in Constantinople 563 | 282 |
The Peninsula 968 | 286 |
The Byzantine Titles of Arethas | 288 |
Procopius and the Arabs | 297 |
The Reign of Justin II | 307 |
The Lakhmids | 308 |
The Ghassanids | 312 |
The House of Ayyub | 315 |
Justin IIs Daughter Apaẞía | 318 |
The Expedition against Khaybar 567? | 322 |
The Harran Inscription | 325 |
Menander and the Arabs | 331 |
The Death of Arethas 569 | 337 |
Mundir in Constantinople 575 | 384 |
The Ghassanid Capture of Hīra 575 | 389 |
On the Name of Justins Daughter Arabia | 390 |
The Reign of Tiberius I Sophia and Maurice | 394 |
Introduction 894 | 395 |
The Persian Front 578580 | 396 |
Constantinople in 580 | 398 |
The Antecedents | 406 |
The Course of the Campaign | 413 |
Some Problems of the Campaign | 416 |
Mundirs Last Victory over the Lakhmids 581 | 420 |
An Evaluation | 425 |
Prodosia | 439 |
The Fall of Mundir | 455 |
Nu mān | 464 |
The Byzantine Response to the Ghassanid Revolt | 471 |
Adī ibnZayd | 478 |
The Ghassanid Matrimony | 482 |
Greek Federate Epigraphy | 489 |
Phārān and Raïthou 969 | 491 |
The Patriciate of Mundir | 512 |
The Two Federate Crowns | 518 |
Nöldeke on the Titles and Ranks of Mundir | 521 |
Flavius Seos Epitropos | 522 |
J G Wetzstein and R Brünnow on alBurj | 524 |
R Mouterde on Nu măn | 526 |
The στρατηλασία of Numan | 528 |
The Reign of Maurice I Maurice and Numan | 529 |
The Trial of the Two Ghassanids | 535 |
Mundir in Sicily | 538 |
The Arab Foederati during the Reign of Maurice | 549 |
Introduction 922 | 550 |
The Restoration of the Ghassanids | 562 |
The Strategikon | 568 |
XV | 570 |
Theodoric and Clovis 991 | 578 |
An Evaluation | 583 |
Evagrius and Theophylact | 592 |
Pratum Spirituale | 597 |
July A D 600 | 602 |
The Controversial Reign of Maurice | 605 |
The Reign of Phocas | 608 |
Maurice the Arabs and Arabissos | 610 |
On the Stirrup | 611 |
The Ghassanids in Recent Scholarship | 613 |
The Reign of Phocas I The Return of Mundir from Exile 602 | 618 |
The Persian War | 622 |
The Ghassanids and Phocas | 626 |
Ibn Ḥamdīs on Sicily | 632 |
The Reign of Heraclius I The First Decade | 634 |
The Second Decade | 641 |
The Third Decade | 646 |
Saracen Pockets in Palaestina Prima | 651 |
Addenda et Corrigenda 996 | 655 |
The Saracens in the Acta of St Anastasius | 658 |
Lists and Stemmata | 661 |
Maps | 682 |
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