Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity

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Index ‘Abd al-Malik, Umayyad ruler, 76 Abgar, 70 Abīkarib Asad, 14 Abraha, Christian ruler in Ethiopia, 24–27, 35 Abraham, patriarch, 65, 67 Abramos, Byzantine ambassador , 21, 25 Abu Karib, phylarch, 26 Achaemenids, 3 Aezanas, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14 Agapius, historian, 74 Alamoundaros. See Mundhir, alAlexandria , 40, 48 Anacreontics, 39, 49 Anastasius, emperor, 25 Anastasius, Saint, of Sinai, 50 Anatolia, 5 Antioch, Syria, 23, 31, 34 Ares, 8 Arethas. See Ḥārith, martyr Armenia, 5, 46, 55, 56, 59 Avars, 55, 56 Avni, Gideon, 41–44 Axum, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 25, 27, 34, 35, 50 Azqir, martyr, 17 Badr, battle at, 62, 69 Baghdad, 77 Bar Kokhba, 31 Bet She‘arim, 35 Book of the Ḥimyarites, 20, 21 Byzantium, 3, 5, 6. See also Constantinople Caesarea in Cappadocia, 23 Caesarea in Judaea, 31, 47 Chalcedonians, 5, 47, 48, 49, 50, 58, 61, 64 92 | Index Cheikh, Nadia el, 69, 75 Christians, 4–5, 75. See also Chalcedonians; Monophysites churches in Jerusalem: Eleona, 44; Gethsemane, 44; Holy Sepulchre, 41, 44; Holy Zion, 41, 44; Nativity, 72; Nea, 41; Probatica, 41 circus factions in Jerusalem, 37, 39 Constantine, emperor, 4 Constantinople, 3, 18, 25, 26, 55, 56, 60, 61, 62 Conterno, Maria, 73–74 Conybeare, F. C., 37 Ctesiphon, 62, 63, 76 Damascus, 3, 77 Daniel, Book of, 35, 73 David, king, 20 Der‘a, in Syria, 55, 62 dhu-Nuwās. See Yūsuf, As’ar Yath’ar, king of Ḥimyar dhu-Raydān, 7, 14 Donner, Fred, 56, 59 Dounaas. See Yūsuf, As’ar Yath’ar, king of Ḥimyar Edessa, 23, 47, 59 Egypt, 55 Ella Asbeha. See Kālēb Esimphaios. See Sumyafa Ashwa (Esimphaios) Ethiopia, 7, 12, 17, 19, 64. See also Axum Euphrates, 3 ‘Ezana. See Aezanas fīl, al-, “the elephant,” 26, 27 Finḥās. See Yūsuf, As’ar Yath’ar, king of Ḥimyar Foerster, Gideon, 46 Foss, Clive, 46, 47 Frumentius, missionary, 8 Gabboula, in Syria, 22 Galilee, 31 Gallus, Byzantine emperor, 31 Garitte, Gérard, 36 Ge‘ez, 11 Ghassānids. See Jafnids (Ghassānids) Ḥaḍramawt, 12, 14 ḥanīf, 66–67 Ḥārith, martyr, 20, 26 Hellenes, 32, 38, 45 Heraclius, emperor, 33, 36, 49, 55, 58, 60, 62, 69, 70, 71, 75, 76 Index | 93 Ḥimyar, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14, 17–19, 24, 25, 34, 35, 36, 59, 64 Ḥīra, al-, 19, 26 Hubal, Arab divinity, 27 Ḥudaybiya, battle at, 62, 69 Isaac, Benjamin, 41, 44 Iskenderun, Gulf of, 55 Jafnids (Ghassānids), 6, 22, 26, 34, 56 Jerusalem, 31–51 Jesus, fictitious correspondence with King Abgar, 70 Jews, 14, 19, 25, 27, 35, 36, 40, 59, 69 John the Almsgiver, 48 John of Ephesus, 23 John Moschus, 40, 49 Julian, emperor, 31 Justin, emperor, 21, 23 Justinian, emperor, 23, 24, 34 Ka‘aba, at Mecca, 27 Kaegi, Walter, 55 Kālēb, 11, 23, 24, 25 Kavad, 57 Kebra Nagast, 20 Khazraj, tribe in Medina, 56 Khosroes II, 31, 33, 35, 46, 47, 57, 63, 69, 70 Kinda, in Arabia, 25 Komitas, Armenian katholikos, 37 Kondakov, N. P., 46 kuffār (infidels), 63, 69, 71 Lakhmids. See Naṣrids (Lakhmids) Leah, bilingual epitaph inscription, 35 Lecker, Michael, 56 Luttwak, Edward, 57 Ma‘add, in Arabia, 25 Magness, Jodi, 43, 37 Maḥrem, Ethiopian divinity, 8 Mamilla, burial cave in Jerusalem, 42–43 Mar Saba, 36 Mārib, 25 Masrūq. See Yūsuf, As’ar Yath’ar, king of Ḥimyar Maurice, emperor, 33, 44 Mecca, 56, 63, 64, 68, 69 Medina, 12, 56, 69 Michael the Syrian, 74 Modestus, monk, 37–39, 44 Monophysites, 5, 23, 24, 47, 48, 50, 58, 64, 65 monotheism, 12, 14, 64, 65 Mount of Olives, 44 94 | Index mu’minūnn (“Believers”), 59, 61–64, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 75 Muḥammad, 27, 50, 51, 56, 59, 63, 64, 65, 69, 70 Mundhir, al-, 21, 22, 26 mushrik (Arab pagan), 65–67 Najrān, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23 Naṣrids (Lakhmids), 6, 19, 21, 26, 34 negus, Ethiopian monarch in Axum, 7, 8, 14, 19, 26, 34, 50, 65, 70 Nestorians, Christians in Persia, 35 Nihāvand, battle at, 71 Nonnosus, Byzantine ambassador and diarist, 22, 25 Palestine, 5, 25, 31, 32, 41, 44, 55, 59 Palmyra, 3–4 Parthians, 3, 57 Paul, Saint, fictional correspondence with Seneca, 70 Persia and Persians, 5, 6, 26, 27, 32, 37, 38, 45, 58, 59, 69 Phocas...