In the mid 3rd century AD Zenobia, the Queen of Palmyra, seized the city from the Romans and established an Arabian empire that stretched from the Bosphorus to the Euphrates. Yet after only a few years it was brutally crushed by the Romans, culminating in Zenobia's suicide in AD 273, aged only 33, to escape being paraded through the streets of Rome. This unusual study, a mix of fiction and `fact', tells the story through Zenobia's own words which are reconstructed from contemporary Arabian and Roman sources as well as archaeological and artefactual evidence. This account of her life, presented as Zenobia's last words while she starved herself to death, are interspersed with explanatory sections that discuss the sources, the cultures, relations between the Severan emperors and the Arabs, artwork, the legends that grew up around Zenobia and her legacy.

Zenobia between Reality and Legend (BAR International)

History

ZAHRAN, Yasmine

Ancient Civilizations

British Archaeological Reports

<p>Septimius Severus was one of the most unusual and colorful emperors in the history of the Roman Empire. Born in Leptis Magna, today s Libya, he was the first truly African ruler of Rome. He brought the empire to the peak of its power and founded the mighty Severan dynasty of soldier-emperors. He died, alone and exhausted, in AD 211. In this meticulously researched biography, Yasmine Zahran tells the emperor s life story as a first person memoir dictated from his bed. The result is an intriguing narrative of the life of a remarkable man.</p>

Septimius Severus - Countdown to Death

Tubb, Jonathan

Biographies & Memoirs

Stacey International

The only significant book on this little known Roman emperor.Originally from Syria, Philip the Arab ruled the Empire of the East from AD 244 to 249 and is remembered for being sympathetic to the Christian faith—some even claim that he converted to Christianity long before Constantine famously converted. He also brought peace with the Sassanid Empire at long last.

Philip the Arab: A Study in Prejudice

Community & Culture

Stacey Intl

<p>The Ghassanids feature little in modern western discourse today, but they formed the last Arab supremacy before Islam, dominating both Arab and Roman history from the third century AD to the sixth. As the first Christian Arab kingdom, the Ghassanids are reviled to this day by many Islamic extremists, who see them as examples of Arabs betraying their cause to the West.  The era of Ghassan brought great prosperity to the region, both economically and culturally. But it was also a period of turmoil and upheaval, with Ghassan, the 'Eastern Roman Empire', forming the first line of defense against the Persians.  In Ghassan Resurrected , Yasmine Zahran, in her inimitable and lively style, revisits the Ghassanid era through the eyes of several Ghassanid leaders. The author brings her unrivalled knowledge of the period to bear on these Kings of Ghassan, recreating their aspirations, visions and their frequently tragic downfalls.  Ghassan Resurrected is the last of a quartet by Yasmine Zahran on the Arab world prior to the rise of Islam.</p>

Ghassan Resurrected

The first Lakhmids are thought to have emigrated from Yemen in the second century. Establishing their empire across what is now Iraq and North-East Arabia, they held sway across the lands that lay between the the Persians and the Romans. The Lakhmids were a major force among the great pre-Islamic Arab peoples. Lakhmid culture and learning spread widely, and carried much influence. Hira, the centre of the Lakhmid kingdom, was where the early Arabic alphabet was standardized. In The Lakhmids of Hira, Yasmin Zahran brings her lively yet informed style to bear on a hitherto unjustly neglected dynasty of Arabia's history. Introduced by Dr Robert Hoyland, with a chronology and a detailed bibliography, The Lakhmids of Hira is a required addition to the shelves of any Arabist or Middle East historian.

The Lakhmids of Hira: Sons of the Water of Heaven

Hoyland, Robert G.

Middle East

Yasmine Zahran first encountered Zenobia, the 3rd century Syrian Palmyrene queen who led the revolt against the Romans, in 1973 when she was working as a young archaeologist in the Levant. So began a lifetime's preoccupation with the woman who ruled over the Egypt she conquered and quashed all Roman rule in her wake. Although she was eventually defeated by the Emperor Aurelian in 274, Zenobia's life is a story of remarkable drama and achievement. In Zenobia: Between Reality and Legend, Yasmine Zahran explores the blurred line between the woman and the myth, and brings her world and time vividly and thrillingly to life through first-person narrative. This is history told with the energy of a novel, and the informed hand of a writer at her peak.

Zenobia: Between Reality and Legend

Historical

A rare biography of the Roman Emperor who presided as the Empire was at its largest extent, ahead of imminent decline.Adopted son of Marcus Aurelius, Septimius Severus (AD 145–211) waged war against the Parthians, sacked Ctesiphon, extended the empire in United Kingdom, reinforced Hadrian's Wall, and finally died in York, England, cursing the English weather. His sons went on to found the Severan Dynasty.

Septimius Severus: Countdown to Death

Gilgamesh Publishing

Yasmine Zahran first encountered Zenobia, the third-century Arab Syrian Palyrene queen who led the revolt against the Romans, in 1973 when she was working as a young archaeologist in the Levant. So began a lifetime's preoccupation with the woman who ruled over the  Egypt she conquered and quashed all Roman rule in her wake.Although she was eventually defeated by the Emperor Aurelian in AD 274, Zenobia's life is a story of remarkable drama and achievement. It ended in a tragic suicide—a fact that debunks the fallacy that she was paraded through Rome in golden chains for a triumphant Aurelian. In this book Yasmine Zarhan explores the blurred line between the woman and the myth, and brings her world and time vividly and thrillingly to life through first-person narrative.Zenobia is a history told with the verve of a novel, and the informed hand of a writer and scholar at her peak.This edition is introduced by Professor Sabry Hafez, Professor of Comparative Literature at Qatar University.

Zenobia: Queen: Between Reality and Legend

Hira, the centre of the Lakhmid kingdom, was where the early Arabic alphabet was standardised. In The Lakhmids of Hira, Yasmine Zahran brings her lively yet informed style to bear on a hitherto unjustly neglected dynasty of Arabia s history. Introduced by Dr Robert Hoyland, with a chronology and a detailed bibliography, The Lakhmids of Hira is a required addition to the shelves of any Arabist or Middle East historian.

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Zenobia between Reality and Legend (BAR International)

Septimius Severus - Countdown to Death

Philip the Arab: A Study in Prejudice

Ghassan Resurrected

The Lakhmids of Hira: Sons of the Water of Heaven

Zenobia: Between Reality and Legend

Septimius Severus: Countdown to Death

Philip the Arab: A Study in Prejudice

Zenobia: Queen: Between Reality and Legend

The Lakhmids of Hira: Sons of the Water of Heaven