Continuity Within Crises: The Long Transition from Roman Africa to Islamic Ifriqiya
Contenu
- Titre
- Continuity Within Crises: The Long Transition from Roman Africa to Islamic Ifriqiya
- Créateur
- Gesick, Caleb T.
- Contributeur
- Schoolman, Edward M.
- Résumé
- The late fifth through early eighth centuries saw massive political, economic, and demographic shifts in North Africa that shaped relationships between Europe and Africa, East and West, and Christians and Muslims in ways that resonate to this day. The Arab conquest of Ifriqiya resulted in wide-scale conversion to Islam, migrations from western Asia, and a transition from a Roman and European trade network to one centered in the Islamic world. These changes compounded upon one another to create political, economic, demographic, and agricultural transformations in the region. Although drastic changes as a result of this conquest have been long assumed, little study has been made of the early period following the Arab conquest. This gap in scholarship has been exacerbated by destruction of early Arab sites by French colonial archaeologists in attempts to restore the original Roman sites and structures. This study evaluates palaeoclimate data alongside primary written records in translation and published archaeological findings to offer fresh insights into the long period of transition from Roman administration, through Vandal and Byzantine rule, and into the Islamic world. By looking across these transitions, a pattern of continuity and gradual transformation emerges. A multidisciplinary approach bridges gaps in the primary sources to illuminate an important period of transition in a shifting religious, political, and economic landscape.
- Type
- M.A. thesis
- Editeur
- University of Nevada Reno
- Couverture spatiale
- Reno
- Date
- 2026
- Titre abrégé
- Continuity Within Crises
- Langue
- eng
- Source
- scholarwolf.unr.edu
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