Denis Genequand and Christian Julien Robin (eds.), Les Jafnides: des rois arabes au service de Byzance
The volume under review revisits the Ghassānids, the famous Arab dynasty allied to Byzantium that has attracted considerable scholarly attention over a good century or more. This undertaking begins with a challenge to the very name granted to the dynasty: “Ghassānid” is indeed quite a misnomer. Nam...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Columbia University Libraries
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/article/view/7026 |
| Summary: | The volume under review revisits the Ghassānids, the famous Arab dynasty allied to Byzantium that has attracted considerable scholarly attention over a good century or more. This undertaking begins with a challenge to the very name granted to the dynasty: “Ghassānid” is indeed quite a misnomer. Names ending in –ids (-idès in Greek) imply a common ancestor and so one should more accurately refer to them as Jafnids, that is the descendants of one Jafna (80 and n. 2, 193).
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| ISSN: | 1068-1051 |