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Ghassān and Byzantium: A New terminus a quo

Ghassān and Byzantium: A New terminus a quo Ghassan and Byzantium: A New terminus a quo Von I r f a n Kawar (University of California, Los Angeles) To My Mother One of NOLDEKE>S most important contributions towards the reconstraction of the history of the Ghassanid Dynasty was his discovery of a terminus a qucl·}. This he found in the pages of Pfocopius of Caesarea, and the context clearly pointed to the year 529 A, D., when the Emperor Justinian made Arethas, son of Jabalah, king over most of the Arabs in the Diocese of the Orient2). The selection of this year as a terminus a quo was a reflection of NOLDEKE'S well known views on the relative worth and historical reliability of the three sets of sources, Greek, Syriac, and Arabic3). The serious aspersions he cast on the geneological tables and chronological sequences of the Arab historians -- on which Caussin de Percival had leaned so heavily, but which carried no conviction for NOLPEKE'S critical acumen -- undermined the groundwork on which his predecessor had rested his structure and thus caused it to collapse4). By doing so, NÖLDEKE transferred the emphasis from the Arabic to the Greek and Syriac sources, and thus revolutionised the methodology http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Der Islam de Gruyter

Ghassān and Byzantium: A New terminus a quo

Kawar, Irfan
Der Islam , Volume 33 (3) – Jan 1, 1958
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Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
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0021-1818
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10.1515/islm.1958.33.3.232
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Ghassan and Byzantium: A New terminus a quo Von I r f a n Kawar (University of California, Los Angeles) To My Mother One of NOLDEKE>S most important contributions towards the reconstraction of the history of the Ghassanid Dynasty was his discovery of a terminus a qucl·}. This he found in the pages of Pfocopius of Caesarea, and the context clearly pointed to the year 529 A, D., when the Emperor Justinian made Arethas, son of Jabalah, king over most of the Arabs in the Diocese of the Orient2). The selection of this year as a terminus a quo was a reflection of NOLDEKE'S well known views on the relative worth and historical reliability of the three sets of sources, Greek, Syriac, and Arabic3). The serious aspersions he cast on the geneological tables and chronological sequences of the Arab historians -- on which Caussin de Percival had leaned so heavily, but which carried no conviction for NOLPEKE'S critical acumen -- undermined the groundwork on which his predecessor had rested his structure and thus caused it to collapse4). By doing so, NÖLDEKE transferred the emphasis from the Arabic to the Greek and Syriac sources, and thus revolutionised the methodology

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Published: Jan 1, 1958

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