Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century

The ambitious scope of ShahÎd's major enterprise...already opens up many new prespectives on the great revolution of the seventh century, and will surely reveaal more. An important addition to our knowledge and understanding of Rome's and Byzantium's relations with the Arabs...The author is to be congratulated for producing a new and important view of the Arab world during these centuries and for making extensive use of scattered Byzantine, Syriac, Islamic and other sources to illustrate his thesis.Shahid, Irfan is the author of 'Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century ', published 1984 under ISBN 9780884021162 and ISBN 0884021165.