Christian Saï in Written Records (Inscriptions and Manuscripts), JJP 36 (2006), 91-104 (original) (raw)

A second look into the Medieval period on Sai Island

Beiträge zur Sudanforschung, 2012

This paper presents the results of the second season of the Greek-Norwegian Archaeological Mission (GNM) on the island of Sai in northern Sudan. The main goal for the 2010 season was to begin the archaeological excavations at the site of a ruined church commonly referred to as the Cathedral of Sai. In parallel, the documentation of a very important site, identified as a port since the last season, had to be completed. Finally, the study of the material, both accumulated in the past and collected during this second season, was continued and thus, in comparison always to the historical sources, the understanding of the history of the island of Sai in the frame of Medieval and post-Medieval Nubia (c. 500-1900 CE) further enlarged.

S. PIERRE and M.-A. UTRERO-AGUDO, From the Tigris to the Ebro. Church and Monastery Building under Early Islam, Editorial CSIC, 2024, 332 p.

Editorial CSIC, 2024

Download for free here: http://libros.csic.es/product\_info.php?products\_id=1832 This book is dedicated to the study of church and monastery constructions during the early centuries of Islam, spanning from post-Sasanian Iraq to Umayyad al-Andalus. It seeks to move beyond the paradigm of an Arab incursion that would immediately freeze the vitality of the Late Antique church, and stop its specific expression: the building of places of worship and convents. While Transjordan experienced a decline that affected most of the population, regardless of their confession, Northern Mesopotamia witnessed an opposite trend of human development, paralleled by the growth of Christian institutions. Textual attestations confirm various archaeological indicators of dynamism inclusive of non-Muslim institutions, especially in Northern Syria, Egypt, and North Africa. While the Middle East began to experience a policy of restrictions and limitations against “new” Christian buildings during the second half of the Second/Eighth century, the recently conquered church of Hispania continued to develop visibly and organise autonomously. Finally, the borderlands of Sicily and Armenia witnessed later and ambivalent developments of Christian institutions that maintained a connection between the Dār al-Islām and Byzantine Christendom.

The Last Revolt of Bashmūr (831 a.d.) in Coptic and Syriac Historiography

Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone, 2020

Illustrations Maps 3.1 Number of Slavic settlement names per ca. 1000 km2 in central and southern Greece (map created by J. Koder, 2001) 87 3.2 Relation in % of the Slavic and the total of modern settlement names in central and southern Greece (map created by J. Koder, 2001) 88 3.3 Toponyms in Dropulli (map created by J. Koder, 2001) 90 12.1 The Roman-Persian border in Armenia and Northern Mesopotamia, 387 and 591 A.D. (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman-Persian\_Frontier\_ in_Late_Antiquity.svg, author: Cplakidas; Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license) 368 12.2 The itineraries of Artabanes Arsakides and the three brothers Narses, Aratios and Isaak in the military service of Emperor Justinian (and beyond), 530-554 A.D. (map created by J. Preiser-Kapeller, 2018) 369 12.3 Connections between localities through the mobility of individuals documented in the texts of Anania of Širak, 7th cent. A.D. (map created by J. Preiser-Kapeller, 2018) 370 15.1 Places mentioned in the papers of the volume (for the numbers see the list of places displayed on map 15.1.; map: J. Preiser-Kapeller, 2019) 431 15.2 Overview of the cities (circles) and archaeological sites (diamonds) mentioned in the papers of the volume (map: J. Preiser-Kapeller, 2019) 432 15.3 Eastern Europe: cities (circles) and archaeological sites (diamonds) mentioned in the papers of the volume (map: J. Preiser-Kapeller, 2019) 433 15.4 Central Asia and Iran: cities (circles) and archaeological sites (diamonds) mentioned in the papers of the volume (map: J. Preiser-Kapeller, 2019) 434 15.5 East Africa and Arabia: cities (circles) and archaeological sites (diamonds) mentioned in the papers of the volume (map: J. Preiser-Kapeller, 2019) 435 15.6 Western Mediterranean and Western Europe: cities (circles) and archaeological sites (diamonds) mentioned in the papers of the volume (map: J. Preiser-Kapeller, 2019) 436 15.7 Southeastern Europe and Asia Minor: cities (circles) and archaeological sites (diamonds) mentioned in the papers of the volume (map: J. Preiser-Kapeller,