The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate

The Red Sea from Byzantium to the CaliphateThis book examines the historic process traditionally referred to as the fall of Rome and rise of Islam from the perspective of the Red Sea, a strategic waterway linking the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean and a distinct region incorporating Africa with Arabia. The transition from Byzantium to the Caliphate is contextualized in the contestation of regional hegemony between Aksumite Ethiopia, Sasanian Iran, and the Islamic Hijaz. The economic

examining particular events over time

designers and writers who formed the Independent Group in the early 1950s including such influential figures as Richard Hamilton

Outlines the forms

areas remain where there is a poverty of understanding

Graffiti on the roof of the temple of Khonsu at Karnak

later King Henry V and he completed it in 1420

The chapter examines plant population studies

battles and even nascent nationalism

Film scholar Mark Browning examines Cronenberg’s literary aesthetic not only in relation to his films’ obvious source material

some existing knowledge gaps and the new goals of pest control strategies

Rounding out this addition to the Directory of World Cinema series are fifty full-colour stills

and the various questions this practice raises