Witnesses to a world crisis: historians and histories of the Middle East in the seventh century

Abstract

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