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Alliances between Christians and Muslims

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The Byzantines will ally with Muslims to attack Persia in an early Islamic conception of the apocalpyse

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    Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.1 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993

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    • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 259, 268, 273, 280, 287, 297, 298, 304 [Arabic].
      • Alliances between Christians and Muslims: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 245, 254, 262, 275–6, 284, 301, 311 [English].

    How to Cite This Entry

    Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Alliances between Christians and Muslims” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/380.

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    • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML
    • Jessica Mutter: abstract and categorization, matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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