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BY ZANTIUM AND THE ARABS IN THE SIXTH CENTURY Volume 1 | Part 1 IRFAN SHAHÎD BYZANTIUM AND THE ARABS IN THE SIXTH CENTURY The tower of the Ghassanid king Arethas, son of Jabala, at Qa~r al-J:Iayr al-Gharbi, Syria (photo: courtesy Dr. Frarn;ois Villeneuve, Instirut Fran~ais d'Archeologie du Proche-Orienr, Damascus). BYZANTIUM AND THE ARABS IN THE SIXTH CENTURY IRFAN SHAHID Volume I Part 1: Political and Military History DUMBARTON OAKS RESEARCH LIBRARY AND COLLECTION Washington, D.C. Copyright © 1995 by Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of CongressC ataloging-in-PublicationD ata Shahid, Irfan, 1926- Byzantium and the Arabs in the sixth century I Irfan Shahid. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: v.1, pt. 1. Political and military history. pt. 2. Ecclesiastical history. ISBN 0-88402-214-5 1. Arabs-History-To 622. 2. Byzantine Empire History-527-1081. 3. Middle Ease-History-To 622. 4. Ghassan Relations-Byzantine Empire. 5. Byzantine Empire-Relations- Ghassan. 6. Ghassanids-History . 7. Monophysites-Middle East History. 8. Christianity-Early church, ca. 30-600. I. Title. DS62.25 .S515 1994 956-dc20 93-33719 CIP IN MEMORIAM GEORGE P. HOURANI 1913-1984 Contents Abbreviations xv Preface xvu Acknowledgments XXl INTRODUCTION I The Sources XX111 II The Sixth Century : A Synoptic View XXV PART ONE : POLITICAL AND MILITARY HISTORY I The Reign of Anastasius I The Foeduso f 502 3 II The Persian War, 502-506 12 III Byzantium and the Lakhmids: Mungir 17 IV Byzantium and Kinda 19 V Procopius 22 Appendices I Wahb ibn-Munabbih : Kitab al-Tijan 25 II Mungir's Invasion of Palestine 26 III An "Indian" Elephant in Gaza 28 II The Reign of Justin I I The Ghassanids 32 II The Withdrawal of the Ghassanids 36 III The Conference of Ramla 40 IV Byzantine-Lakhmid Relations 42 V Jabala, the Ghassanid Federate King 48 VI Procopius on the Reign of Justin I 49 V111 Contents Appendices I Latin Limes, Syriac Limifon 55 II The Pella Inscription 56 III The Reign of Justinian Introduction 61 A The First Persian War (527-532) I The Return of the Ghassanids 62 II The Expedition against Mungir, Winter 528 70 III Thanniiris, the Battle of the Ditch, Summer 528 76 IV Mungir's Invasion of Syria Prima, March 529 79 V The Samaritan Revolt of 529 82 VI The Basileia of Arethas, 529 95 VII The Two Basileiai: Ghassanid and Byzantine 109 VIII The Usays Inscription 117 IX Abii Karib 124 X The Battle of Daras, 530 131 XI The Battle of Callinicum, 531 134 XII The Embassy of Julian 144 XIII Byzantium and Kinda 148 XIV Byzantium and Ma'add (the Maddinoi) 160 xv Saracen Pockets in the Three Palestines 166 XVI Malalas on the Federate Arabs 168 Appendices I Justinian in Oriens 171 II Phoenicia Libanensis: The Two Dukes 172 III Zacharia of Mytilene on Timostratus and Jabala 174 IV Ma'add 175 V B. Rubin on the Battle of Callinicum 177 B The Inter-War Period (532-539) I The Vandal War, 533-534 180 II Choricius of Gaza 182 III The Saracen Invasion of Euphratensis, 536 194 IV Novel 102 on Arabia 196 V Edict 4 on Phoenicia Libanensis 198 VI Novel 103 on Palestine 200 VII Byzantine-Ghassanid Relations in 5 36 206
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