Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity(English, Paperback, Bowersock G. W.)

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Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity(English, Paperback, Bowersock G. W.) is written by Bowersock G. W. and published by Brandeis University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1611683211 (ISBN 10) and 9781611683219 (ISBN 13).

In this book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel, the famed historian G. W. Bowersock presents a searching examination of political developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of the rise of Islam. Recounting the growth of Christian Ethiopia and the conflict with Jewish Arabia, he describes the fall of Jerusalem at the hands of a late resurgent Sassanian (Persian) Empire. He concludes by underscoring the importance of the Byzantine Empire's defeat of the Sassanian forces, which destabilized the region and thus provided the opportunity for the rise and military success of Islam in the seventh century. Using close readings of surviving texts, Bowersock sheds new light on the complex causal relationships among the Byzantine, Ethiopian, Persian, and emerging Islamic forces.