Features & Benefits
- The book explores a violent conflict between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs before the rise of Islam
- The conflict was an international war that involved both the Byzantine and Sasanian Empires
- The flashpoint of the war occurred when Yusuf, the Jewish king of Himyar, massacred hundreds of Christians living in Najran
- The Throne of Adulis is meticulously described by a sixth-century Christian merchant known as Cosmas Indicopleustes
- This chapter in pre-Islamic Arabian history sheds light on the collapse of the Persian Empire as well as the rise of Islam
- The book uses a wealth of historical and archaeological evidence from the period