Late Antiquity on the Eve of Islam

This volume reflects the huge upsurge of interest in the Near East and early Islam currently taking place among historians of late antiquity. At the same time, Islamicists and Qur''anic scholars are also increasingly seeking to place the life of Muhammad and the Qur''an in a late antique background. Averil Cameron, herself one of the leading scholars of late antiquity and Byzantium, has chosen ele...