Qusayr 'Amra

Garth Fowden is Research Professor at the Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Research Foundation in Athens. He is author of The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind (reprinted 1993) and Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity (1993).

• List of Maps and Illustrations Abbreviations Preface 1. Musil's Fairy-Tale Castle 2. Luxuries of the Bath 3. The Hunt 4. "O God, Bless the Amir" 5. The Princely Patron 6. Maintaining the Dynasty 7. The Six Kings 8. A Captive Sasanian Princess 9. Qusayr 'Amar Contextualized 10. Umayyad Self-Representation Appendix: The Value of Arabic Literary Sources Bibliography Index

"Three features make this book remarkable. First, its scholarship is impeccable, unusually broad, and complete. Second, its author has a clear story to tell. Third, it illuminates the world of Late Antiquity, which is only now beginning to be understood." - Oleg Grabar, author of The Shape of the Holy"