AU  - Wood,Philip
TI  - History and identity in the late antique Near East
T2  - Oxford studies in late antiquity
SN  - 9780199915408
AV  - DS42.4, .H57 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - National characteristics
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Civilization
N1  - This volume arose out of a seminar series organised at the Classics Centre of Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 2009 and a subsequent workshop in 2010; Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-229) and index; Sophronius of Jerusalem and the end of roman history / Phil Booth -- Identity, philosophy, and the problem of Armenian history in the sixth century / Tara Andrews -- The chronicle of Seert and Roman ecclesiastical history in the Sasanian world / Philip Wood -- Why were the Syrians interested in Greek philosophy? / Dan King -- You are what you read: Qenneshre and the Miaphysite church in the seventh century / Jack Tannous -- The prophet's city before the prophet: Ibn Zabala (d. after 199/814) on pre-Islamic Medina / Harry Munt -- Topoi and topography in the histories of al-?ira / Adam Talib -- "The crinkly haired people of the black earth"; examining Egyptian identities in Ibn 'abd al-?akam's futu? / Hussein Omar -- Forgetting Ctesiphon: Iran's pre-Islamic past, ca. 800-1100 / Sarah Savant -- Legal knowledge and local practices under the early Abbasids / Mathiew Tillier
ER  -