Explorations of Islamic History & Civilization (EIHC)

Echoes of the First Encounters – Syriac Testimonies on Islam’s Emergence (EFE) – IX – The Chronicle of 819: Christianity, Caliphate, and Memory at the Crossroads of Empires

Echoes of the First Encounters - Syriac Testimonies on Islam’s Emergence (EFE) - VIII - Caliphs, Comets, and Civil War: The Chronicle of Zuqnīn from The Prophet to Marwan II

Echoes of the First Encounters - Syriac Testimonies on Islam’s Emergence (EFE) - VII - The Chronicle of 775: From Adam to Empire — A Syriac Vision of History in a Changing World

Echoes of the First Encounters - Syriac Testimonies on Islam’s Emergence (EFE) - VI - The Chronicle of 724: Empire and Memory in the Age of Transition

Echoes of the First Encounters - Syriac Testimonies on Islam’s Emergence (EFE) - V - The Chronicle of 705: The Earliest Syriac Caliph-List

The Prophet and Palestine: A Conquest Too Great to Forget? Challenging the Claim that Muhammad (ﷺ) Lived to 634

Echoes of the First Encounters - Syriac Testimonies on Islam’s Emergence (EFE) - IV - The Maronite Chronicle: Between the Empire and the Ummah

Echoes of the First Encounters - Syriac Testimonies on Islam’s Emergence (EFE) - III - From Church History to Arab Conquest: A Syriac Chronicle of a Vanishing World

Echoes of the First Encounters - Syriac Testimonies on Islam’s Emergence (EFE) - II - Fragmented Visions: The Chronicle of 640 and the Early Seventh Century in Turmoil

Echoes of the First Encounters - Syriac Testimonies on Islam’s Emergence (EFE) - I - The Account of 637: First Impressions of the Arab Conquests

718 CE: Doom, Deliverance, and the Final Arab Siege of Constantine's City

668: Fire, Faith, and the Forgotten Siege That Shook Two Empires

670 CE: The Slow Death of al-Ḥasan and the Hidden Hand of Empire

666 CE: Poison, Espionage, and the Murder That Shook the Caliphate

654 CE: Tribute, Diplomacy, and the Siege That Shook the Roman Empire