Who lost' Christian North Africa? Who won it and how? Walter Kaegi
takes a fresh look at these perennial questions, with maps and
on-site observations, in this exciting new book. Persisting clouds
of suspicion and blame overshadowed many Byzantine attempts to
defend North Africa, as Byzantines failed to meet the multiple
challenges from different directions which ultimately overwhelmed
them. While the Muslims forcefully and permanently turned Byzantine
internal dynastic and religious problems and military unrest to
their advantage, they brought their own strengths to a dynamic
process that would take a long time to complete the transformation
of North Africa. An impartial comparative framework helps to sort
through identity politics, Orientalism' charges and
counter-charges, and institutional controversies; this book also
includes a new study of the decisive battle of Sbeitla in 647,
helping readers to understand what befell Byzantium, and indeed
empires from Rome to the present."
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