TY - BOOK ID - 143478538 TI - The Life of Theodotus of Amida AU - Hoyland, Robert, AU - Hoyland, Robert G AU - Palmer, Andrew N AU - Palmer, Andrew PY - 2023 SN - 9781463244101 146324410X PB - Piscataway, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Theodotus, KW - Umayyad dynasty KW - History KW - Syrian Orthodox Church KW - History. KW - Byzantine Empire KW - Islamic Empire UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143478538 AB - The Life of Theodotus of Amida is that rare thing: a securely dated eye-witness account of life under Arab Muslim rule in the first century of Islam, and one of the few extant texts from seventh-century North Mesopotamia. It is imbued with local color and contemporary detail, revealing an intimate knowlredge of the terrain, its inhabitants and officialdom, as well as the precariousness of the lives of those living in the borderlands between the Byzantine and Islamic empires. ER -