Philip Wood is Lecturer in Early Medieval History at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University.

• Preface ; List of Contributors ; Introduction ; Map ; 1. Sophronius of Jerusalem and the End of Roman History ; Phil Booth ; 2. Identity, philosophy, and the problem of Armenian history in the sixth century ; Tara L. Andrews ; 3. The Chronicle of Seert and Roman ecclesiastical history in the Sasanian world ; Philip Wood ; 4. Why were the Syrians interested in Greek philosophy? ; Daniel King ; 5. You are What You Read: Qenneshre and the Miaphysite Church in the Seventh Century ; Jack Tannous ; 6. The Prophet's City before the Prophet: Ibn Zab?la (d. after 199/814) on Pre-Islamic Medina ; Harry Munt ; 7. Topoi and Topography in the histories of al-??ra ; Adam Talib ; 8. 'The Crinkly Haired People of the Black Earth'; examining Egyptian identities in Ibn 'Abd al-?akam's Fut?? ; Hussein Omar ; 9. Forgetting Ctesiphon: Iran's Pre-Islamic Past, ca. 800-1100 ; Sarah Savant ; 10. Legal knowledge and local practices under the early Abbasids ; Mathieu Tillier ; Abbreviations ; Bibliography ; Index

Each chapter in this book supports the notion that identities, whether of individuals, of communities, or of states, were fluid and circumstantial. This definition is especially effective for interpreting a region that was, and still is, experiencing such rapid religious, cultural, and political upheaval.

Philip Wood is Lecturer in Early Medieval History at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University.

• Preface ; List of Contributors ; Introduction ; Map ; 1. Sophronius of Jerusalem and the End of Roman History ; Phil Booth ; 2. Identity, philosophy, and the problem of Armenian history in the sixth century ; Tara L. Andrews ; 3. The Chronicle of Seert and Roman ecclesiastical history in the Sasanian world ; Philip Wood ; 4. Why were the Syrians interested in Greek philosophy? ; Daniel King ; 5. You are What You Read: Qenneshre and the Miaphysite Church in the Seventh Century ; Jack Tannous ; 6. The Prophet's City before the Prophet: Ibn Zab?la (d. after 199/814) on Pre-Islamic Medina ; Harry Munt ; 7. Topoi and Topography in the histories of al-??ra ; Adam Talib ; 8. 'The Crinkly Haired People of the Black Earth'; examining Egyptian identities in Ibn 'Abd al-?akam's Fut?? ; Hussein Omar ; 9. Forgetting Ctesiphon: Iran's Pre-Islamic Past, ca. 800-1100 ; Sarah Savant ; 10. Legal knowledge and local practices under the early Abbasids ; Mathieu Tillier ; Abbreviations ; Bibliography ; Index

Each chapter in this book supports the notion that identities, whether of individuals, of communities, or of states, were fluid and circumstantial. This definition is especially effective for interpreting a region that was, and still is, experiencing such rapid religious, cultural, and political upheaval.

Philip Wood is Lecturer in Early Medieval History at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University.

• Preface ; List of Contributors ; Introduction ; Map ; 1. Sophronius of Jerusalem and the End of Roman History ; Phil Booth ; 2. Identity, philosophy, and the problem of Armenian history in the sixth century ; Tara L. Andrews ; 3. The Chronicle of Seert and Roman ecclesiastical history in the Sasanian world ; Philip Wood ; 4. Why were the Syrians interested in Greek philosophy? ; Daniel King ; 5. You are What You Read: Qenneshre and the Miaphysite Church in the Seventh Century ; Jack Tannous ; 6. The Prophet's City before the Prophet: Ibn Zab?la (d. after 199/814) on Pre-Islamic Medina ; Harry Munt ; 7. Topoi and Topography in the histories of al-??ra ; Adam Talib ; 8. 'The Crinkly Haired People of the Black Earth'; examining Egyptian identities in Ibn 'Abd al-?akam's Fut?? ; Hussein Omar ; 9. Forgetting Ctesiphon: Iran's Pre-Islamic Past, ca. 800-1100 ; Sarah Savant ; 10. Legal knowledge and local practices under the early Abbasids ; Mathieu Tillier ; Abbreviations ; Bibliography ; Index

Each chapter in this book supports the notion that identities, whether of individuals, of communities, or of states, were fluid and circumstantial. This definition is especially effective for interpreting a region that was, and still is, experiencing such rapid religious, cultural, and political upheaval.