Book Reviews: А.А. Чекалова, Сенат и сенаторская аристократия Константинополя. IV - первая половина VII века, Наука, Москва 2010, pp. 338.
Journal Title: Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe - Year 2012, Vol 2, Issue
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Book Review.
Authors and Affiliations
Mirosław Leszka, Andrzej Kompa
Quss Ibn Sa’ida al-Iyadi (6th–7th Cent. A.D.), Bishop of Najran An Arabic and Islamic Cultural Hero
The article deals with the half-legendary Quss Ibn Sa’ida from an ancient North Arab tribe Iyad, who is believed to have been a bishop of the Yemeni city of Najran and a monk (anachorete). The sources from the Quranic a...
Transition from the Temple of Jupiter to the Great Mosque of Damascus in Architecture and Design
Great Mosque of Damascus was built between 705 and 715 by the Umayyad Caliph al-Walid I. However, the origins of this building dates to the distant past. At first it was a location of an ancient Aramaean temple dedicat...
Book Reviews: Vladimír Vavřínek, Cyril a Metoděj mezi Konstantinopolí a Římem [Cyril and Methodius between Constantinople and Rome], Vyšehrad 2013, pp. 375.
Book Review.
Islam, the Arabs and Umayyad Rulers According to Theophanes the Confessor’s Chronography
As the Chronography of Theophanes the Confessor includes a lot of information about the foreign states and tribes which were connected with the Byzantine Empire. It is legitimate, in the Author’s view, to analyse the a...
Taxes in the Mediterranean. Ancient Roman Perspective. Preface
Preface.