L’église des Aksûmites à Ẓafâr (Yémen) a-t-elle été incendiée ?

The episode of the destruction of the church of the Aksumites at Ẓafâr by the troops of the Himyarite king Joseph in 522 allows us to study the practices of historical recording in pre-Islamic Arabia and the circulation of historical information between the various historiographies at work in the Ne...

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Main Author: Christian Julien Robin
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Language:English
Published: Université de Provence 2011-07-01
Series:Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/7101
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L’église des Aksûmites à Ẓafâr (Yémen) a-t-elle été incendiée ?
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
Himyar
Aksum
epigraphy
Christian sources
Hagiographic sources
title L’église des Aksûmites à Ẓafâr (Yémen) a-t-elle été incendiée ?
title_full L’église des Aksûmites à Ẓafâr (Yémen) a-t-elle été incendiée ?
title_fullStr L’église des Aksûmites à Ẓafâr (Yémen) a-t-elle été incendiée ?
title_full_unstemmed L’église des Aksûmites à Ẓafâr (Yémen) a-t-elle été incendiée ?
title_short L’église des Aksûmites à Ẓafâr (Yémen) a-t-elle été incendiée ?
title_sort l eglise des aksumites a zafar yemen a t elle ete incendiee
topic Himyar
Aksum
epigraphy
Christian sources
Hagiographic sources
url https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/7101
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