Rethinking Conquest
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Edited by:
Mehmetcan Akpınar
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In collaboration with:
Theresia Raum
About this book
The momentous political and social changes that affected the Near East following the death of the prophet Muhammad have traditionally been framed as ‘conquests’. But what did ‘conquest’ mean, if anything, to contemporary and later medieval observers in the Byzantine and Islamicate worlds, beyond the told and retold stories of battles and sieges? What should it or can it mean for today’s historian and area scholar? This volume aims, on the one hand, to record aspects of the wide-ranging conversation around the topic of ‘conquest’ that took place at a conference held in Tübingen in 2017, intersecting the trajectory of the many revisions which have affected Byzantine and Early Islamic historiography in recent decades. On the other hand, by including surveys that deal with interdisciplinary, general and theoretical issues and studies that engage in greater detail with the literary and archaeological source material, the book offers readers a guide to some of the most significant problems that face the historian of every extraction when approaching the events of the seventh century CE.
Author / Editor information
Mehmetcan Akpınar, University of Chicago, USA; Federico Montinaro, Universität Tübingen, Germany.
Topics
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Frontmatter
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Open Access Transformation of the Millennium Studies
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - Part I: The lay of the land
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The conquests of the Arabian believers as historiographical concept and historical reality
9 - Part II: Texts and contexts
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Were there strategic considerations in the seventh-century Arabian conquests?
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There and Back Again: Heraclius and Constantinople before the Arab conquest
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The Arab conquest of the Roman Levant
63 - Part III: Discourses
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Das sog. Constans-Vaticinium und seine Datierung. Eschatologische Vorstellungen in der ersten Hälfte des 7. Jahrhunderts?
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The influence of late antique religious polemical discourse on early Byzantine perceptions of the first Muslim victories
121 - Part IV: Realia
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The Muslim conquest of southern Jordan and historical memory
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Coinage in Syria before and after the Arab conquest. The results and significance of new research
171 - Part V: Reflections
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Argumentum Ex Silentio. Religiöse Überzeugungsstrategie in der iberischen Chronik Continuatio Byzantia-Arabica
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Index
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