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This book offers a radical perspective on what are conventionally called the Islamic Conquests of the seventh century.  Placing these earthshattering events firmly in the context of Late Antiquity, it argues that many of the men remembered as the fanatical agents of Muḥammad probably did not know who the prophet was and had, in fact, previously fought for Rome or Persia.  The book applies to the study of the collapse of the Roman Near East techniques taken from the historiography of the fall of the Roman West.  Through a comparative analysis of medieval Arabic and European sources combined with insights from frontier studies, it argues that the two falls of Rome involved processes far more similar than traditionally thought.  It presents a fresh approach to the century that witnessed the end of the ancient world, appealing to students of Roman and medieval history, Islamic Studies, and advanced scholars alike.     .

Rome --- History. --- Civilization --- Middle Eastern influences. --- Middle East --- Europe-History-To 476. --- Middle East-History. --- Philology. --- Military history. --- Historiography. --- History of Ancient Europe. --- History of the Middle East. --- Classical Studies. --- History of Military. --- Historiography and Method. --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Military historiography --- Military history --- Wars --- Historiography --- Naval history --- Criticism --- Europe—History—To 476. --- Middle East—History.

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"Profound cultural change defined the Byzantine World. For centuries after its embrace of Christianity, exchanges of ideas, objects, peoples and identities continued to flow across an empire that found itself located at the crossroads of so many other worlds. From high politics of state, to Orthodox doctrine and practice, to artistic developments, the Byzantine world absorbed, transmuted, and transmitted aspects of other cultures in ways that often deeply influenced not only the course and development of Byzantine, but also of Eurasian, history and culture. This book brings together several select and important contributions to the study of cross-cultural exchange in the Byzantine World in its largest geographic and temporal sense. It employs an inter-disciplinary and comparative approach, presenting papers first given by graduate and early-career academic researchers from around the world at the Oxford University Byzantine Society's seventeenth international conference, held on the 27th and 28th of February, 2015. This book not only presents for the first time a broad range of new and innovative scholarly work to an academic, and otherwise interested, audience, but also bears witness to the wealth, relevance and extreme variety of a cross-cultural approach to the late antique and medieval Mediterranean and Near East"--Provided by publisher.

Christianity and culture --- Christianity and culture. --- Intellectual life. --- Intercultural communication --- Intercultural communication. --- International relations. --- Manners and customs. --- Politics and government. --- Social change --- Social change. --- History --- Byzantine Empire --- Byzantine Empire. --- Intellectual life --- Politics and government --- Relations --- Social life and customs