| Title: | From Albania to Arrān: The East Caucasus between the Ancient and Islamic Worlds (ca. 330 BCE-1000 CE) |
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| Editor: | Robert G. Hoyland |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity, vol. 25 |
| Place: | Piscataway, NJ |
| Publisher: | Gorgias Press |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Pages: | XVI, 389 |
| ISBN: | 1463239882, 9781463239886 |
| File: | PDF, 25.9 MB |
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From Albania to Arrān: The East Caucasus between the Ancient and Islamic Worlds (ca. 330 BCE-1000 CE). Edited by Robert G. Hoyland; Series: Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity, vol. 25. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2020, XVI+389 p. ISBN 1463239882, ISBN 9781463239886
This volume is the first publication in English to discuss the nature and identity of the polity in the East Caucasus referred to by modern scholars as (Caucasian) Albania. The sporadic and fragmentary character of our sources for this polity means that it is difficult to construct a continuous narrative of its history, and so we offer here studies by leading specialists on particular aspects of it.
Table of contents
Table of Contents … V
Acknowledgments … VII
Abbreviations … IX
Transliteration & Conventions … XV
Introduction … 1
I. HISTORIES & PERSPECTIVES … 7
1. Lara Fabian. Albania in Greek and Latin Texts: The Use and Utility of ‘Views from the West’ … 9
2. M. S. Gadjiev. The Chronology of the Arsacid Albanians … 29
3. Alison Vacca. Buldān al-Rān: The Many Definitions of Caucasian Albania in the Early Abbasid Period … 37
4. Ryan Lynch. “The Wall of Rock and Lead”: Abbasid Reflections on Sasanian Caucasian Policy in Arrān … 85
5. M. S. Gadjiev. The Mission of Bishop Israyĕl in the Context of the Historical Geography of Caucasian Albania … 101
6. V. Minorsky. Arrān in the 9th-10th Centuries: Sahl ibn Sunbāț (d. ca. 850) and Marzubān b. Muhammad b. Musafir (d. 957) … 121
7. Constantin Zuckerman. The Caucasus between Byzantium and the Caliphate (9th–10th c.) … 149
8. Stephen H. Rapp Jr. Georgian Images of Caucasian Albania … 191
II. MATERIAL CULTURE … 217
9. I. A. Babaev and J. A. Khalilov. On the Cities of Ancient Caucasian Albania … 219
10. Annegret Plontke-Lüning. Jerusalem in the Caucasus: Church Building and Relic Traditions in Late Antiquity … 233
11. A. B. Nuriev and Paul Wordsworth. The Medieval City of Bardha‘a … 253
12. Jeyhun Eminli. Caucasian Albania and its First Capital City: Qabala … 277
III. LANGUAGE & LITERATURE … 305
13. A. K. Alikberov. Peoples and Languages of Caucasian Albania: On the Language Continuum as an Alternative for Koine: Written Language and Vernacular Language … 307
14. Zaza Aleksidzé, with Jean-Pierre Mahé. The Deciphering of the Script of the Caucasian Albanians … 335
15. James Howard-Johnston. Caucasian Albania and its Historian … 351
Indices … 371