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

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity ; 25
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Physical Description:1 online resource (405 p.)
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Table of 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