Seventh Century in the West Syrian Chronicles
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
352 pages
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© 1993
The Seventh Century in the West-Syrian Chronicles makes accessible to a wide public sources vital for the reconstruction of events in the first Islamic century, covering the period which ends with the unsuccessful Arab siege of Constantinople, an event which both modern historians and Syriac chronographers see as making a decisive caesura in history. The general introduction enables a newcomer to the field to establish his bearings before tackling the texts.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
(i) The confessional background
(ii) The historical context (by R. H.)
(iii) The texts
(iv) Chronology and Chronological tables
Select bibliography of West-Syrian chronicles
Abbreviations, brackets, signs
PART ONE
Minor West-Syrian Chronography
1. A record of the Arab conquest of Syria, AD 637
2. Extract from a chronicle composed about AD 640
3. Extract from the Melkite Chronicle (AD 642+)
4. Extract from the Maronite Chronicle (AD 664+)
5. Fragment of James of Edessa, AD 691/2
6. A list of caliphs, composed after AD 705
7. A chronicle of disasters dated AD 716 (tr. S. P. B.)
8. A list of caliphs from the Arabic (AD 724+)
9. Extract from an 'Account', written in AD 775
10. Extract from the Chronicle of Zuqnin, AD 775
11. Inscriptions of Ehnesh, late eighth century
12. Extracts from two chronicles up to AD 819/846
PART TWO
Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, Secular History, introduction
Concordance of the contents
13. Extract from the Chronicle of AD 1234
PART THREE
Two Apocalyptic Texts of AD 691+ (by S. P. B.)
14. Extract from the Apocalypse of Ps.-Methodius
15. The Edessene Apocalyptic Fragment
Epilogue
Appendices, Index and Maps
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