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ROME AND THE ARABS IRFAN SHAHÎD ROME AND THE ARABS Alinari/Editorial Photocolor Archives, Inc. Bust of Emperor Philip Vatican City, Vatican Museum ROME AND THE ARABS A PROLEGOMENON TO THE STUDY OF BYZANTIUM AND THE ARABS IRFAN SHAHID Georgetown University DUMBARTON OAKS RESEARCH LIBRARY AND COLLECTION Washington, D.C. © 1984 DUMBARTON OAKS TRUSTEES FOR HARVARD UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON, D.C. Library of CongressC atalogingi n PublicationD ata Shahid, Irfan, 1926- Rome and the Arabs. Includes index. 1. Arabs-History-To 622. 2. Rome--History-Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. 3. Arabs-Rome. 4. Near East History-To 622. I. Title. DS62.25.S52 1984 937'.004927 83-8930 ISBN 0-88402-115-7 TO ADRIAN NICHOLAS SHERWIN-WHITE 3 3 Irfan Shahîd Associate Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks and Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, Irfan Shahîd was Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies at Georgetown University, where from 1981 to 2006 he held the Chair of the Oman Professorship of Arabic and Islamic Literature. In addition to many studies in Byzantino-Arabica, the Koran, and Arabic literature, he was the author of The Martyrs of Najrân, Subsidia Hagiographica 49 (Brussels, 1971) and edited the Arabic version of one of Themistius’s orations, Epistula de re publica gerenda, for the Bibliotheca Teubneriana. Titles in the Byzantium and the Arabs series by Irfan Shahîd Rome and the Arabs: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Byzantium and the Arabs Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fifth Century Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century | Volume 1, Part 1 Political and Military History Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century | Volume 1, Part 2 Ecclesiastical History Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century | Volume 2, Part 1 Toponymy, Monuments, and Historical Geography Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century | Volume 2, Part 2 Toponymy, Monuments, and Historical Geography You can download these books and more at www.doaks.org/publications Contents Frontispiece Preface lX Acknowledgments xv Abbreviations XVll Introduction XIX Part One: Interpretative Surveys 1 I. The Arab Presence in the Orient in the First Century B.C. 3 II. Arab-Roman Relations from the Settlement of Pompey to the Reign of Diocletian 17 III. The Arab Factor in Roman History in the Third Century 33 IV. Cultural Contacts and Contributions 43 Part Two: Topical Studies 49 V. Notitia Dignitatum 51 VI. The First Christian Roman Emperor: Philip or Constantine? 65 VII. Eusebius and the Arabs 95 VIII. Zosimus and the Arabs 113 IX. The Term Saraceni and the Image of the Arabs 123 Part Three: Synthesis and Exposition 143 Epilogue 163 Maps 169 Index 181 Finispiece
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