Byzantium and the Arabs in the sixth century

508 Pages·2002·181.64 MB·English

by  Irfan Shahid

BY ZANTIUM
AND THE
ARABS IN
THE SIXTH
CENTURY
Volume 2 | Part 1
IRFAN SHAHÎD

BYZANTIUMANDTHEARABS
INTHE
SIXTHCENTURY
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Acclamation to the Ghassanid king/phylarch inscribed in the intercolumnar space in the south
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wall of Church 1: “O Arethas, son of al-H.arith!”
BYZANTIUM AND THE ARABS
IN THE
SIXTH CENTURY
ˆ
IRFAN SHAHID
VolumeII
Part1:Toponymy,Monuments,HistoricalGeography,
and
FrontierStudies
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INMEMORIAM
JOHANNGOTTFRIEDWETZSTEIN
1815–1905
ERNSTEMILHERZFELD
1879–1948
AH.MADWAS.F¯IZAKARIYYA¯
1889–1964
What mean these stones?
Joshua4:6
Ihalted(mymount)askingthedesertedcampsites(abouttheiroccupants),
butfutilewasmyquestion,addressedtoremains,soeverlastinglydeaf,silent,
andinarticulate.
Lab¯ıd,SuspendedOde,verse10
Contents
Abbreviations xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction xxv
I
TheFederateSedentaryPresence
I TheGhassa¯nids:SedentaryFoederati 1
II Oriens:HydrographicObservationsontheRhomaicand 15
FederateArabs
II
FrontierStudies
I TheMilitaryReorganizationofOriensin529 21
II FoederatiandLimitanei:TheGhassa¯nidTakeover 35
III TheTwoShields 51
IV Ghassa¯nidMilitaryStructuresandArabicMilitaryTerms 60
Appendices
I TheBattleofDaras 66
II Al-RabadaH.ima¯ 66
III OntheEtymologyandConnotationofQa.sr 67
III
HistoricalGeography
I Gaulanitis/Jawla¯n/Golan 76
II TheGolan:HolyLand,HolyMountain 86
III Ja¯biya 96
IV Jalliq 105
V Ru.sa¯fa/Sergiopolis 115
VI Salu¯qiya/Seleucia 133
Appendix
St.SergiusinRecentScholarship 136
viii Contents
IV
Ghassa¯nidReligiousArchitecture:
TheChurchesandtheMonasteries
I Introduction 143
II TheChurches 148
III ListofAttestedChurches 149
IV TheSourcesontheMonasteries 156
V ArabMonasticism 164
VI TheGhassa¯nidsandMonasticism 171
VII Theodore,BishopoftheGhassa¯nids,ca.540–ca.570 176
VIII ListofGhassa¯nidMonasteries 183
IX Nunneries 195
X Ghassa¯nidMonasticStructures 201
XI Influences 213
Appendices
I TwoMonasteries 216
II Ghu¯.tatDimashq 217
V
TheSources
A
Poets
I Introduction 220
II Al-Na¯bigha 221
III H.assa¯n 232
IV H.a¯tim 246
(cid:1)
V Imru al-Qays 259
VI Al-Mutalammis 265
(cid:2)
VII AmribnKulthu¯m 268
(cid:2)
VIII Al-Asha¯ 272
IX Lab¯ıd 278
Appendices
I ATripletonthePlague 280
(cid:1)
II Qa.srDu¯maandSawa¯ al-Haykal 283
III Ja¯h.iz. andal-Hamada¯n¯ıonH.assa¯n’sGhassa¯nidOdes 287
IV H.assa¯ninRecentScholarship 291
V TheGhassa¯nidPresenceinPalaestinaTertia 303
VI AdditionalToponyms 304
VII TheodorNo¨ldekeandJuliusWellhausenonLab¯ıd 305