The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: States, Resources and Armies

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The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East

States, Resources and Armies

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Edited by Averil Cameron

Publisher:: Gerlach Books
Online publication date:: September 2025
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9783959940894
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9783959940894

Subjects:: Middle East Studies, Area Studies, History, Middle East History
Series:: Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam

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A comparative analysis of Byzantine, Sasanian and Muslim armies and their impact on state resources. Contributions discuss the organization and financing of the army in the late Roman state, the transformations and continuities of the late Sasanid state and with authority and armies in the early Muslim state. Thus, the volume brings together perspectives from neighbouring fields, presents military issues in an intercultural manner and assembles important pieces of knowledge in a comprehensive manner.

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The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East

States, Resources and Armies

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Abbreviations
pp vii-viii

List of Maps
pp ix-xiv

Preface
pp xv-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-26

1 - L'Etat à la recherche de nouveaux modes de financement des armées (Rome et Byzance, IVe-VIIIe siecles)
pp 27-60

2 - Recruitment in Roman Armies from Justinian to Heraclius (ca. 565-615)
pp 61-124

3 - The Army in the Late Roman East: the Persian Wars and the Defence of the Byzantine Provinces
pp 125-156

4 - The Two Great Powers in Late Antiquity: a Comparison
pp 157-226

5 - The Reforms of Khusro Anūshirwān
pp 227-298

6 - Features of the Pre-Conquest Muslim Armies in the Time of Muḥammad
pp 299-336

7 - Centralized Authority and Military Autonomy in the Early Islamic Conquests
pp 337-360

8 - The Financing of the Military in the Early Islamic State
pp 361-378

9 - Seventh-Century Continuities: the Ajnād and the “Thematic Myth”
pp 379-424

10 - Araber und Themen. Zum Einfluß der arabischen Expansion auf die byzantinische Militärorganisation
pp 425-460

Conclusion
pp 461-468

Index
pp 469-491

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