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Irfan Shahid, Byzantium and the Arabs: Late Antiquity
Published in 2005
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Irfan Shahid recently published the third volume of his collected studies, entitled Byzantium and the Arabs: Late Antiquity. He has also taken part in two symposia, one at the University of Maryland (College Park) and one at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The papers he contributed to both symposia are now being published, and are entitled “The Peninsular Arab Presence in the Orient, Bilad al-Sham, in Byzantine and Umayyad Times,” and “The Arab Background, Islamic and pre-Islamic, of Umayyad Urbanism in Bilad al-Sham.” The articles by Dr. Shahid that have recently appeared in print include “The Martyresses of Najran in Aegyptus Christiana” in Cahiers d’Orientalisme (Geneva, 2005); “Islam and Byzantium in the 9th Century: the Baghdad-Constantinople Dialogue,” in The Research Center for Islamic History (Istanbul, 2005); “The Last Sasanid-Byzantine Conflict in the 7th Century,” by the Academia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, 2005); and “Justinian and the Christianization of Palestine; the Neacclesia in Jerusalem,” by The University of Athens (Athens, Greece). Dr. Shahid continues to work on the completion of the seventh volume of his series, Byzantium and the Arabs.
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