Witnesses to a World Crisis

James Howard-Johnston is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies from 1971 to 2009. He has travelled extensively in the Middle East and East Mediterranean, and escaped for a while from the confines of academic life by serving on Oxford City Council (1971-6) and Oxfordshire County Council (1973-7, 1981-7). He is married to the novelist Angela Huth and has a step-daughter and daughter.

• 1. George of Pisidia ; 2. Two Universal Chronicles ; 3. Seventh-Century Eastern Sources I: The History of Khosrov ; 4. Seventh-Century Eastern Sources II: The History to the Year 682 and the Khuzistan Chronicle ; 5. Supplementary Roman Sources of the Seventh Century I ; 6. Supplementary Roman Sources of the Seventh Century II ; 7. Later Historians: The West Syrian Tradition ; 8. Later Historians: Nicephorus ; 9. Later Historians: Theophanes ; 10. Later Historians at Work in Egypt, Iraq, and Iran ; 11. Early Islamic Historical Writing ; 12. The Life of the Prophet ; 13. Historians of the Middle East in the Seventh Century ; 14. The Middle East in the Seventh Century: The Great Powers, Arabia, and the Prophet ; 15. The Middle East in the Seventh Century: Arab Conquests ; 16. The Middle East in the Seventh Century: A New World Order ; Conclusion

[James Howard-Johnston] is admirably clear in describing his approach