A List
of books used in 20 years of research. Over 60 books about the Apocalypse, the Byzantine empire, and Islam. Not a complete list:
Angold, Michael ”Byzantium” St. Martin’s Press
Armstrong, Karen ”Islam – A Short History” Modern Library
Armstrong, Karen “Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet”
Augustine “City of God”
Aune, David ”Revelation”
Baur, Chrysostomus ”John Chrysostom and His Time”
Beale, G ”The Book of Revelation”
Beckwith ”Apocalyse of John”
Brown, R “The Jerome Biblical Commentary” Prentice Hall
Butler, Daniel ”The First Jihad” Casemate Publishers
Byron, Robert ”The Byzantine Achievement”
Capponi, Niccolo “Victory of The West” Da Capo Press
Charles, R ”Studies in the Apocalypse” Wipf and Stock Publishers
Durant, Will ”Caesar and Christ” MJF Books
Emmerson, Richard ”The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages” Cornell
Esposito, John ”The Oxford History of Islam” Oxford University Press
Finkel, Caroline ”Osman’s Dream” Perseus Books Group
Ford, Josephine ”Revelation”
Freely, John ”Istanbul – The Imperial City” Viking – Penguin Books USA
Fregosi, Paul ”Jihad in the West” Prometheus Books
Gibbon, Edward ”The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”
Glubb, John ”A Short History of the Arab Peoples” Dorset Press
Grant, Michael ”The Roman Emperors” Barnes & Noble
Gregg, Steve ”Revelation – Four Views” Thomas Nelson Publishers
Gwynn, John ”The Apocalypse of St. John” APA – Philo Press Amsterdam
Haldon, J ”Byzantium in the Seventh Century”
Harris, Jonathan “Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium” Hambledon Continuum
Haussig, H ”A History of Byzantine Civilization”
Herrin, Judith ”Byzantium” Princeton University Press
Hopkins, T. C. F. ”Empires, Wars, and Battles” Tom Doherty Associates
Hourani, Albert “A History of the Arab Peoples”
Jerome “The Letters of Saint Jerome”
Johns, Jeremy “The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity”
Kaegi, Walter ”Army, Society and Religion in Byzantium”
Kaegi, Walter ”Byzantium and the early Islam conquests” Cambridge
Krey, Philip ”Nicholas of Lyra’s Apocalypse Commentary”
Lecky, William ”History of European Morals”
Lewis, Bernard ”The Crisis of Islam” Modern Library
Maier, Paul ”Eusebius – The Church History” Kregel Publications
Mango, Cyril ”The Oxford History of Byzantium” Oxford University Press
Mazower, Mark “The Balkans – A Short History” Modern Library
Miceli, Vincent ”The Antichrist” Roman Catholic Books
Newton, Isaac “The Prophecies of Daniel and The Apocalypse (1733)”
Norwich, John ”Byzantium – The Early Centuries” Alfred A. Knopf
O’Shea, Stephen ”Sea of Faith” Walker and Company
Ostrogorsky, George ”History of the Byzantine State” Rutgers Univ Press
Pagden, Anthony ”Worlds at War” Random House
Palmer, Andrew ”The Seventh Century in the West-Syrian Chronicles”
Payne, Robert ”The History of Islam” Dorset Press
Pipes, Daniel ”Militant Islam Reaches America” W. W. Norton & Company
Regan, Geoffrey ”First Crusader – Byzantium’s Holy Wars”
Reston, James “Defenders of the Faith”
Ross, Daveed ”My Year Inside Radical Islam” Penguin
Schatkin, Margaret ”Saint John Chrysostom – Apologist”
Thompson, Leonard ”The Book of Revelation” Oxford University Press
Treadgold, Warren ”A History of the Byzantine State and Society”
Victorinus “Commentary on the Apocalypse”
Vryonis, Speros “Byzantium and Europe”
Whittow, Mark “The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025”
Weinrich, Willliam ”Revelation, Ancient Christian Commentary”
Wells, Colin “Sailing from Byzantium” Delacorte Press
Worth, Roland ”The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse and Greco-Asian”
Young, George “Constantinople” Barnes & Noble Books
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