LEADER 03297nam 2200565Ia 450 001 996205834003316 005 20230803021207.0 010 $a0-19-991541-5 010 $a0-19-991540-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000001105570 035 $a(EBL)3055337 035 $a(OCoLC)855787377 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000887520 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11465712 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000887520 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10839690 035 $a(PQKB)10639500 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000124445 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3055337 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001105570 100 $a20120625d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aHistory and identity in the late antique Near East, 500-1000$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Philip Wood 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (262 p.) 225 1 $aOxford studies in late antiquity 300 $aThis 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. 311 $a0-19-933281-9 311 $a1-299-60052-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSophronius 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. 330 8 $aThis book examines the importance of the past, both real and imagined, in constructing contemporary culture in the period AD 500-1000. It goes beyond 'history-writing' in a narrow sense to examine philosophy, theology, liturgy and jurisprudence as vehicles for tradition and the imagination of a past 'golden age'. The papers straddle the Roman-Persian frontier and go well into the Islamic period: together, they push the boundaries of late antiquity' into the varied language traditions: not just Greek, but also Syriac, Armenian, Coptic and Arabic. 410 0$aOxford studies in late antiquity. 606 $aNational characteristics$vCongresses 607 $aMiddle East$xCivilization$vCongresses 607 $aMiddle East$xAntiquities$vCongresses 615 0$aNational characteristics 676 $a956/.013 701 $aWood$b Philip$f1982-$0916722 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996205834003316 996 $aHistory and identity in the late antique Near East, 500-1000$92411847 997 $aUNISA