The ambitious scope of ShahA(R)d's major enterprise...already opens
up many new perspectives on the great revolution of the seventh
century, and will surely reveal more. ShahA(R)d shows himself a
master of the literary sources that survive in abundance in Greek,
Latin, Syriac, and Arabic. He has ranged more widely across the
classical and oriental sources for Byzantium than anyone before
him. These two books make an important addition to our knowledge
and understanding of Rome's and Byzantium's relations with the
Arabs...The author is to be congratulated for producing a new and
important view of the Arab world during these centuries and for
making extensive use of scattered Byzantine, Syriac, Islamic, and
other sources to illustrate his thesis.
Byzantine, Syriac, Islamic, and other sources to illustrate his
thesis.
The ambitious scope of Shahd's major enterprise...already opens up
many new perspectives on the great revolution of the seventh
century, and will surely reveal more. Shahd shows himself a master
of the literary sources that survive in abundance in Greek, Latin,
Syriac, and Arabic. He has ranged more widely across the classical
and oriental sources for Byzantium than anyone before him. These
two books make an important addition to our knowledge and
understanding of Rome's and Byzantium's relations with the
Arabs...The author is to be congratulated for producing a new and
important view of the Arab world during these centuries and for
making extensive use of scattered Byzantine, Syriac, Islamic, and
other sources to illustrate his thesis.
The ambitious scope of Shahnd's major enterprise...already opens up
many new perspectives on the great revolution of the seventh
century, and will surely reveal more. Shahnd shows himself a master
of the literary sources that survive in abundance in Greek, Latin,
Syriac, and Arabic. He has ranged more widely across the classical
and oriental sources for Byzantium than anyone before him. These
two books make an important addition to our knowledge and
understanding of Rome's and Byzantium's relations with the
Arabs...The author is to be congratulated for producing a new and
important view of the Arab world during these centuries and for
making extensive use of scattered Byzantine, Syriac, Islamic, and
other sources to illustrate his thesis.
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