Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies, 1 Issue 1-2

1 JLAIBS.2022.0001_subscription.pdf Outline placeholder Table 1 2 3 MILK TERMINOLOGY MILK RHETORIC Amplification and Antithesis Metaphor and Imagery CONCLUSIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 4 Mariam 19s Challenge Figure Figure The Local Contexts of Late Antiquity Gendered Space and its Intermediaries in Late Antique’TarDn The Door as Liminal Space between Earth and Heaven (and/or Hell) The Celebration of the Karapet (and/or Vahagn) as Intermediary The Sublimation of the Virgin Mary (and/or Anahit) as Intermediary Conclusion ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5 Arabic and Persian sources Greek, Syriac, Armenian, and Christian Arabic sources Analysis APPENDIX Excerpt from Miskawayhi, Taj1rib Mention of a trick AbarwBz played on the king of the Byzantines Excerpt from al-ThaʿlabB, Akhl1q, 180 137 Plots of Kisr1 AbarwBz Excerpt from the commentary of DBw1n al-Aʿsh1, 158 139 6 Literature of the field Romulus and Remus and the Foundation Narrative in Malalas 19 Chronographia The Founding story of Rome in early Islamic and Arabic-Christian sources The Syriac sources and the foundation narrative Conclusion ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7 Scrolls: a long tradition AHL AL-KIT0B: BETWEEN MANUSCRIPT TRADITIONS AND CULTURAL IDENTITY GREEK-BYZANTINE SCROLLS AND ARABIC SCROLLS IN THE QUBBAT AL-KHAZNA Final Remarks ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 8 Al-Ḥajj1j b. YBsuf: The Tyrant of Islam Ibn ʿAs1kir 19s biographical entry on al-Ḥajj1j b. YBsuf in’the History of Damascus Table Four chronological blocks Figure Clusters of reports Individual reports Al-Ḥajj1j 19s Biography in Its Context and Ibn ʿAs1kir 19s’Ashʿarism Five Akhb1r from the Biography and Their Shifting’Meanings Conclusion ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF AUTHORS CONCLUSION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10