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From Albania to Arrān : The East Caucasus between the Ancient and Islamic Worlds (ca. 330 BCE–1000 CE) / ed. by Robert Hoyland.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity ; 25Publisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (405 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781463239886
  • 9781463239893
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 949.6/02 23
LOC classification:
  • DR921
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- TRANSLITERATION & CONVENTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. HISTORIES & PERSPECTIVES -- 1. ALBANIA IN GREEK AND LATIN TEXTS: THE USE AND UTILITY OF ‘VIEWS FROM THE WEST’ -- 2. THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE ARSACID ALBANIANS -- 3. BULDĀN AL-RĀN : THE MANY DEFINITIONS OF CAUCASIAN ALBANIA IN THE EARLY ABBASID PERIOD -- 4. “THE WALL OF ROCK AND LEAD:” ABBASID REFLECTIONS ON SASANIAN CAUCASIAN POLICY IN ARRĀN -- 5. THE MISSION OF BISHOP ISRAEL CONTEXT OF THE HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF CAUCASIAN ALBANIA -- 6. ARRĀN IN THE 9-10THCENTURIES:SAHL IBN SUNBĀȚ(D.CA.850)AND MARZUBĀN B. MUHAMMAD B.MUSĀFIR(D.957) -- 7. THE CAUCASUS BETWEEN BYZANTIUM AND THE CALIPHATE (9TH–10TH C.) -- 8. GEORGIAN IMAGES OF CAUCASIAN ALBANIA -- II. MATERIAL CULTURE -- 9. ON THE CITIES OF ANCIENT CAUCASIAN ALBANIA -- 10. JERUSALEM IN THE CAUCASUS: CHURCH BUILDING AND RELIC TRADITIONS IN LATE ANTIQUITY -- 11. THE MEDIEVAL CITY OF BARDHA‘A -- 12. CAUCASIAN ALBANIA AND ITS FIRST CAPITAL CITY: QABALA -- III. LANGUAGE & LITERATURE -- 13. PEOPLES AND LANGUAGES OF CAUCASIAN ALBANIA: ON THE LANGUAGE CONTINUUM AS AN ALTERNATIVE FOR KOINE -- 14. THE DECIPHERING OF THE SCRIPT OF THE CAUCASIAN ALBANIANS -- 15. CAUCASIAN ALBANIA AND ITS HISTORIAN -- INDICES
Summary: The first ever study in English dedicated to Albania in Late Antiquity to the Medieval period.
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- TRANSLITERATION & CONVENTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. HISTORIES & PERSPECTIVES -- 1. ALBANIA IN GREEK AND LATIN TEXTS: THE USE AND UTILITY OF ‘VIEWS FROM THE WEST’ -- 2. THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE ARSACID ALBANIANS -- 3. BULDĀN AL-RĀN : THE MANY DEFINITIONS OF CAUCASIAN ALBANIA IN THE EARLY ABBASID PERIOD -- 4. “THE WALL OF ROCK AND LEAD:” ABBASID REFLECTIONS ON SASANIAN CAUCASIAN POLICY IN ARRĀN -- 5. THE MISSION OF BISHOP ISRAEL CONTEXT OF THE HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF CAUCASIAN ALBANIA -- 6. ARRĀN IN THE 9-10THCENTURIES:SAHL IBN SUNBĀȚ(D.CA.850)AND MARZUBĀN B. MUHAMMAD B.MUSĀFIR(D.957) -- 7. THE CAUCASUS BETWEEN BYZANTIUM AND THE CALIPHATE (9TH–10TH C.) -- 8. GEORGIAN IMAGES OF CAUCASIAN ALBANIA -- II. MATERIAL CULTURE -- 9. ON THE CITIES OF ANCIENT CAUCASIAN ALBANIA -- 10. JERUSALEM IN THE CAUCASUS: CHURCH BUILDING AND RELIC TRADITIONS IN LATE ANTIQUITY -- 11. THE MEDIEVAL CITY OF BARDHA‘A -- 12. CAUCASIAN ALBANIA AND ITS FIRST CAPITAL CITY: QABALA -- III. LANGUAGE & LITERATURE -- 13. PEOPLES AND LANGUAGES OF CAUCASIAN ALBANIA: ON THE LANGUAGE CONTINUUM AS AN ALTERNATIVE FOR KOINE -- 14. THE DECIPHERING OF THE SCRIPT OF THE CAUCASIAN ALBANIANS -- 15. CAUCASIAN ALBANIA AND ITS HISTORIAN -- INDICES

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The first ever study in English dedicated to Albania in Late Antiquity to the Medieval period.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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