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History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East (Hardcover)
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History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
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History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East gathers together
the work of distinguished historians and early career scholars with
a broad range of expertise to investigate the significance of newly
emerged, or recently resurrected, ethnic identities on the borders
of the eastern Mediterranean world. It focuses on the "long late
antiquity" from the eve of the Arab conquest of the Roman East to
the formation of the Abbasid caliphate. The first half of the book
offers papers on the Christian Orient on the cusp of the Islamic
invasions. These papers discuss how Christians negotiated the end
of Roman power, whether in the selective use of the patristic past
to create confessional divisions or the emphasis of the shared
philosophical legacy of the Greco-Roman world. The second half of
the book considers Muslim attempts to negotiate the pasts of the
conquered lands of the Near East, where the Christian histories of
Hira or Egypt were used to create distinctive regional identities
for Arab settlers. Like the first half, this section investigates
the redeployment of a shared history, this time the historical
imagination of the Qu'ran and the era of the first caliphs. All the
papers in the volume bring together studies of the invention of the
past across traditional divides between disciplines, placing the
re-assessment of the past as a central feature of the long late
antiquity. As a whole, History and Identity in the Late Antique
Near East represents a distinctive contribution to recent writing
on late antiquity, due to its cultural breadth, its
interdisciplinary focus, and its novel definition of late antiquity
itself.
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