The seventh century in the West-Syrian chronicles
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The seventh century in the West-Syrian chronicles
（Translated texts for historians, v. 15）
Liverpool University Press, 1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The confessional background
The historical context (by R. H.)
The texts
Chronology and Chronological tables
Select bibliography of West-Syrian chronicles
Abbreviations, brackets, signs
Minor West-Syrian Chronography
A record of the Arab conquest of Syria, AD 637
Extract from a chronicle composed about AD 640
Extract from the Melkite Chronicle (AD 642+)
Extract from the Maronite Chronicle (AD 664+)
Fragment of James of Edessa, AD 691/2
A list of caliphs, composed after AD 705
A chronicle of disasters dated AD 716 (tr. S. P. B.)
A list of caliphs from the Arabic (AD 724+)
Extract from an 'Account', written in AD 775
Extract from the Chronicle of Zuqnin, AD 775
Inscriptions of Ehnesh, late eighth century
Extracts from two chronicles up to AD 819/846
Dionysius of Tel-Mahre Secular History, introduction
Concordance of the contents
Extract from the Chronicle of AD 1234
Two Apocalyptic Texts of AD 691+ (by S. P. B.)
Extract from the Apocalypse of Ps.-Methodius
The Edessene Apocalyptic Fragment
Epilogue
Appendices, Index and Maps
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