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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doaj-eb2fafdadb4840929d981c23b1b54b862021-02-05T17:54:35ZengColumbia University LibrariesAl-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā1068-10512016-11-0124110.7916/alusur.v24i1.7026Denis Genequand and Christian Julien Robin (eds.), Les Jafnides: des rois arabes au service de Byzance Antoine Borrut 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). https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/article/view/7026 |
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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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