The Throne of Adulis Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam
ISBN: 9780199739325 | 0199739323
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 4/1/2013
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Just prior to the rise of Islam, in the sixth century AD, southern Arabia was embroiled in a holy war between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs. The Jewish kingdom, composed of ethnic Arabs who had converted to Judaism more than a century before, had launched a bloody pogrom against Christians in the region. The ruler of Ethiopia, who claimed descent from the union of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba and even was rumored to possess an object no less venerable than the Ark of the Covenant, aspired both to protect the persecuted Christians and ... MORE
Preface
Abbreviations
List of Maps and Illustrations
Maps
I. The Throne
II. A Christian Traveller in the Red Sea
III. Ptolemy's Elephants
IV. The Kingdom of Axum
V. Christianity Comes to Axum
VI. Judaism Comes to Himyar
VII. The Ethiopian Invasion of 525
VIII. Entry of the Great Powers
IX. Reckoning
Appendix: Nonnosus
Bibliography
Index
G. W. Bowersock is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Among his many previous books are From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition, Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam, and Roman Arabia.
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