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Irfan Shahîd is Oman Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Islamic Literature at Georgetown University.
of Arab architecture in the region-the link between the earlier
pagan (Nabataean and Palmyrene) and later Muslim (Umayyad).
Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century is devoted to frontier
studies and to the structures of the Arab federates of Byzantium.
It deals mainly with the Ghassanids of Oriens in the sixth century,
a time of transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. The
focus of this study is on the military, religious, and civil
structures of the Ghassanids. The detailed study of these buildings
contributes to our understanding of Byzantine provincial art and
architecture in Oriens, as they were adopted by the federate Arabs
and later adapted to their own use. As monuments of Christian
architecture, these federate structures constitute the missing link
in the development of Arab architecture in the region-the link
between the earlier pagan (Nabataean and Palmyrene) and later
Muslim (Umayyad).
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