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Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century
Irfan Shahîd
出版
Dumbarton Oaks
, 1984
主題
History / General
History / Europe / Medieval
History / Europe / Greece
History / Byzantine Empire
ISBN
0884021165
9780884021162
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mvQ8MKpVtqkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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The fourth century, the century of Constantine, witnessed the foundation and rise of a new relationship between the Roman Empire and the Arabs. The warrior Arab groups in Oriens became
foederati
, allies of Byzantium, the Christian Roman empire, and so they remained until the Arab conquests. In
Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century
, Irfan Shahîd elucidates the birth of the new federation and the rise of its institutional forms and examines the various constituents of federate cultural life: the phylarchate, the episcopate, the beginnings of an Arab Church, an Arabic liturgy, and the earliest attested composition of Arabic poetry. He discusses the participation of the Arab
foederati
in Byzantium's wars with her neighbors--the Persians and the Goths--during which those Arab allies, most notably the Tanūkhids, contributed to the welfare of the
imperium
and the
ecclesia
. In the reign of Valens, the
foederati
appeared as the defenders of Nicene Orthodoxy: their soldiers fought for it; their stern and uncompromising saint, Moses, championed it; and their heroic and romantic queen, Mavia, negotiated for it.