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Oral History Interview with Justin and Barbara Kerr, undertake by Joshua Wilson and James Curtin on the telephone on July 19, 2013. Justin and Barbara Kerr donated their photographic archive to the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) of Dumbarton Oaks in order that it will remain available to any and all researchers in perpetuity.

This exhibit highlights the Margaret Alexander Collection at Dumbarton Oaks, and was developed to coincide with the 2012 Byzantine Studies symposium, “Rome Re-Imagined: Byzantine and Early Islamic Africa, c. 500–800.”

March 20, 1999 – January 2, 2000

April 30, 1999 – May 2, 1999

The careers of these holy women demonstrate some of the divergent paths to sanctification in Byzantium.

Shahîd describes the society of the Ghassānids and their contributions to the cultural environment in sixth-century Oriens, revealing the history of a unique Christian Arab culture.

In this topical study of the military, religious, and civil structures of the Ghassānids, Shahîd argues that the Ghassānids were not nomadic but thoroughly sedentary.

In a volume devoted to the Arab federates of the Byzantine Empire, Shahîd draws on Greek, Syriac, and Arabic sources to trace the relationship between the Byzantines and Ghassānids.

Gleaning from multiple sources, Shahîd describes the political, military, ecclesiastical, and cultural history of the Arab federates in the fifth century and demonstrates how they lived in harmony with Byzantium.

Shahîd recounts the foundation of a new relationship in the fourth century between the Roman Empire and the Arabs in Oriens, who remained allies of Byzantium until the Arab conquests.