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Late Antiquity and Early Islam [PDF]

Religious Inquiries, 2016
In this paper, an investigation on the relation between state-building and Near Eastern religion is attempted. Analyzing the city-state of Ḥaṭrā (Iraq, close to Kirkuk), it is demonstrated that pre-Islamic state craft in the region was dependent on the ...
Johannes Niehoff
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The Charm of Late Antiquity. Review of: Kreiner, J., & Reimitz, H. (Eds.). (2016). Motions of Late Antiquity: Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society in Honour of Peter Brown. Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 20. Turnhout: Brepols. x + 353 p.

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2018
This review describes the conceptual and content parts of the collection of articles authored by English-speaking specialists in antiquity and the history of the early Middle Ages, analysing the peculiarities of development and functioning of certain ...
Aleksandr Sergeevich Kozlov
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Dominus and tyrannos? Narratives of slavery in the political discourse of Late Antiquity

, 2020
In her book “Arbitrary Rule. Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death”, the author Mary Nyquist describes the pairing of slavery and tyranny as "political slavery” and distinguishes it from the institution of slavery.
BINSFELD, Andrea
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Assessing the Demographic and Economic Parameters that Determined the Residential History of Medieval Central Greece: the Case of Western Sterea Hellas

Studia Ceranea
The principal objective of this study is to investigate the demographic and economic parameters that shaped the settlement dynamics of medieval Central Greece (Sterea Hellas) over a broad chronological span extending from the 12th to the 16th century ...
George Terezakis
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Thrown into Limekilns: The Reuse of Statuary and Architecture in Galilee from Late Antiquity onwards [PDF]

, 2016
This article examines the evidence of limekilns and associated marble deposits in Galilee from Late Antiquity onwards, with a special emphasis on its urban regions.
Bonnie, Rick
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The Avdat in Late Antiquity Project: uncovering the Early Islamic phases of a Byzantine town in the Negev Highlands

, 2022
Three seasons of archaeological fieldwork by the Avdat in Late Antiquity Project have yielded new evidence of intensive Early Islamic activity in the late antique town of Avdat in Israel's Negev Highlands.

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Tyras in Late Antiquity

Archaeologia Polona
The article presents materials related to the existence of Tyras in the late Roman period. Based on the available data, it is assumed that there were two phases in the existence of the city in Late Antiquity.
Oleh Saveliev
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The Problem of Borders of the Civilization of Late Antiquity. Review of: Testa, R. L. (Ed.). (2017). Late Antiquity in Contemporary Debate. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 280 p.

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2019
This review describes the concept and content of a collection of articles authored by Western specialists in antiquity and the history of the early Middle Ages analysing the peculiarities of development and functioning of mostly chronological and ...
Aleksandr Sergeevich Kozlov
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Reconstructing enzyme evolution by protein engineering

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Natural enzyme evolution can be retraced by protein engineering methods such as directed evolution, rational design, and ancestral sequence reconstruction. These approaches reveal how enzymes emerged from ligand‐binding scaffolds, developed varying substrate preferences, formed oligomeric complexes, adapted to environmental changes, and evolved novel ...
Lukas Drexler, Markus R. Busch, Reinhard Sterner   +2 more
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Aziz al-Azmeh, The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allāh and His People

Al-'Usur al-Wusta, 2015
Aziz al-Azmeh aims his T h e Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity at two of the most important questions concerning Middle Eastern history: how did the Muslim faith arise, and what was the role of the Arab people in the venture of Islam?
Peter Webb
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