9. ON THE CITIES OF ANCIENT CAUCASIAN ALBANIA

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. ABBREVIATIONS ix
5. TRANSLITERATION & CONVENTIONS xv
6. INTRODUCTION 1
7. I. HISTORIES & PERSPECTIVES
8. 1. ALBANIA IN GREEK AND LATIN TEXTS: THE USE AND UTILITY OF ‘VIEWS FROM THE WEST’ 9
9. 2. THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE ARSACID ALBANIANS 29
10. 3. BULDĀN AL-RĀN : THE MANY DEFINITIONS OF CAUCASIAN ALBANIA IN THE EARLY ABBASID PERIOD 37
11. 4. “THE WALL OF ROCK AND LEAD:” ABBASID REFLECTIONS ON SASANIAN CAUCASIAN POLICY IN ARRĀN 85
12. 5. THE MISSION OF BISHOP ISRAEL CONTEXT OF THE HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF CAUCASIAN ALBANIA 101
13. 6. ARRĀN IN THE 9-10^THCENTURIES:SAHL IBN SUNBĀȚ(D.CA.850)AND MARZUBĀN B. MUHAMMAD B.MUSĀFIR(D.957) 121
14. 7. THE CAUCASUS BETWEEN BYZANTIUM AND THE CALIPHATE (9^TH–10^TH C.) 149
15. 8. GEORGIAN IMAGES OF CAUCASIAN ALBANIA 191
16. II. MATERIAL CULTURE
17. 9. ON THE CITIES OF ANCIENT CAUCASIAN ALBANIA 219
18. 10. JERUSALEM IN THE CAUCASUS: CHURCH BUILDING AND RELIC TRADITIONS IN LATE ANTIQUITY 233
19. 11. THE MEDIEVAL CITY OF BARDHA‘A 253
20. 12. CAUCASIAN ALBANIA AND ITS FIRST CAPITAL CITY: QABALA 277
21. III. LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
22. 13. PEOPLES AND LANGUAGES OF CAUCASIAN ALBANIA: ON THE LANGUAGE CONTINUUM AS AN ALTERNATIVE FOR KOINE 307
23. 14. THE DECIPHERING OF THE SCRIPT OF THE CAUCASIAN ALBANIANS 335
24. 15. CAUCASIAN ALBANIA AND ITS HISTORIAN 351
25. INDICES 371