Late Antique Historiography

History of the conquest of Syria by the Arabs

Title(s):

History of the conquest of Syria by the Arabs
ܬܫܥܝܬܐ ܕܥܠ ܟܒܫܗ̇ ܕܣܘܪܝܐ ܕܡܢ ܛܝ̈ܝܐ
(taš‘ītā d-‘al kbāšāh d-sūriyā d-men ṭayāyē, History of the conquest of Syria by the Arabs )

Author:

Anonymous (History of the conquest of Syria by the Arabs)

Period covered:

634/635-636

Language:

Syriac

State of Preservation:

Partial

Genre:

Remarks:

This is a brief, apparently contemporary account of the Arab conquest.

Edition - Translation:

E.W. Brooks, I. Guidi, J.-B. Chabot (1904) (ed.) Chronica minora. Volume Three (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 5: Scriptores Syri, 5). Leuven: 75.
E.W. Brooks, I. Guidi, J.-B. Chabot (1907) (tr.) Chronica minora. Volume Three (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 6: Scriptores Syri, 6). Leuven: 59-60.

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Bibliography:

M. Debié (2015) L'écriture de l'histoire en syriaque: Transmissions interculturelles et constructions identitaires entre hellénisme et Islam (Late antique history and religion, 12). Leuven - Paris - Bristol: 543.
R. Hoyland (1997) Seeing Islam as others saw it: A survey and evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian writings on early Islam (Studies in Late Antiquity and early Islam, 13). Princeton: 116-117.