LIBROS DEL AUTOR: robert hoyland

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  • The Life of Sallara and his Mother Elishbah
    Charlotte Labedan-Kodaş / Robert Hoyland / Simon Brelaud
    Sallara and his mother Elishbah lived through turbulent times: the 'last great war of antiquity' fought between Byzantium and Iran, as well as the astonishingly successful Muslim Arab invasions, which led to the collapse of the empire of Iran and the rise of the new Islamic empire. Yet this holy couple, bound by their love for each other and for God, continued unperturbed by th...
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    159,19 €

  • The Life of Theodotus of Amida
    Andrew Palmer / Robert Hoyland
    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 knowledge of the terrain, its inhabitants and officialdom, as well as the precari...
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    118,47 €

  • The Life of Simeon of the Olives
    Robert Hoyland
    This book presents the first ever critical edition and complete translation of the Syriac Life of Saint Simeon of the Olives, who was an abbot of Qartmin Monastery in Tur Abdin and a bishop of the city of Harran in the late seventh and early eighth century AD. His career coincided with the beginnings of the incorporation of North Mesopotamia into the expanding Muslim Empire, an...
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    93,90 €

  • IN GODS PATH AWC P
    Robert G. Hoyland
    In just over a hundred years--from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750--the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion, and it was claimed for the Arabs in roughly half the time. How they were able to ...
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    20,88 €

  • Arabia and the Arabs
    Robert G. Hoyland
    Using a wide range of sources - inscriptions, poetry, histories, and archaeological evidence - Robert G. Hoyland explores the main cultural areas of Arabia, from ancient Sheba in the South, to the deserts and oases of the north. ...
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    74,17 €