“Superiority Is Due to Us, and the King Should Come from Among Us”: The Arab Conquests and Conflicts of the Early Umayyad Era in a 7th-Century Syriac Universal History of Yoḥannān bar Penkāyē

“Superiority Is Due to Us, and the King Should Come from Among Us”: The Arab Conquests and Conflicts of the Early Umayyad Era in a 7th-Century Syriac Universal History of Yoḥannān bar PenkāyēDer IslamSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/UETYL4RT/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.YuliaFurmanDmitryCherkashin“Superiority Is Due to Us, and the King Should Come from Among Us”: The Arab Conquests and Conflicts of the Early Umayyad Era in a 7th-Century Syriac Universal History of Yoḥannān bar Penkāyēhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/UETYL4RThttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/UETYL4RThttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/UETYL4RTDer Islam101:22024346-382The last few decades have seen considerable interest in non-Muslim sources that contain material on the earliest stage of Islam. This paper examines one such witness, The Book of the Main Points by Yoḥannān bar Penkāyē, a 7th-century Syriac universal history, that provides an account of the Arab conquests, the first decades of the Umayyad caliphate, with a special focus on the events of the Second Fitna. The paper includes a commentary on selected passages from the History concerning the conquests and early Muslim rule, a comparative study of Syriac Christian sources on the Second Fitna, and a lexico-historical sketch of the phenomenon of the šurṭa (slaves and prisoners of war) fighting on the side of al-Muḫtār during the Second Fitna. Furman, Yulia, and Dmitry Cherkashin. “‘Superiority Is Due to Us, and the King Should Come from Among Us’: The Arab Conquests and Conflicts of the Early Umayyad Era in a 7th-Century Syriac Universal History of Yoḥannān Bar Penkāyē.” Der Islam 101:2 (2024): 346–82. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1515/islam-2024-0020. Yulia Furman and Dmitry Cherkashin, ‘Superiority Is Due to Us, and the King Should Come from Among Us’: The Arab Conquests and Conflicts of the Early Umayyad Era in a 7th-Century Syriac Universal History of Yoḥannān Bar Penkāyē, Der Islam 101:2 (2024): 346–82, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1515/islam-2024-0020.