Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fifth Century

6th century al-Qays Amorkesos Arab allies Arab chief Arab federate Arab foederati Arab phylarch Arabic sources Arethas Aspebetos BAFOC barbarians biblical Byzantine Byzantium Chap Christian church Constantinople Cyril Cyril of Scythopolis Dawūd discussed ecclesiastical Elias emperor empire Ephesus Euthymius fifth century foederati foedus fourth century fragment Ghassanids Greek Ḥijāz Ḥīra Hisham historian ibid important Imru inscription involved Iotabe Ishmael Ishmaelites Islam Iyad Jabala Jerusalem Jurhum Kindite Kyrillos Lakhmid Lakhmid king lavra limes Malchus Mecca military monastery monks Monophysite Mundir Najran Nöldeke Notitia Dignitatum Oriens Osroene Palaestina Tertia Palestine Parembole period Persian Persian War Petrus Phoenicia Phoenicia Libanensis phylarch possible pre-Islamic Procopius province Provincia Arabia Quṣayy reference region reign of Anastasius Roman territory Sabas Salīḥ Salīḥids Saracens Shahîd Simeon South Arabia Sozomen suggests Synesius Syriac Tanūkhids Terebon term Theodoret Theodosius Theodosius II Theophanes tribal group tribe Vandals verse Vita western Arabia Zokomos καὶ بن