الفتح الإسلامي لبلاد الشام و جزر شرق البحر المتوسط من خلال كتاب تاريخ ميخائيل الكبير

Abstract EN

Michael the Great Syriac is one of the earliest historians of the Syriac Christians who compiled various Syriac accounts of events in the cities of the ancient and medieval world in his book entitled "History", which included a summary of his predecessor from the Syriac historians who witnessed operations of the Islamic conquest and wrote about him as eyewitnesses.

Although, the book in its entirety is an attempt to date the Eastern Church, but it included a wide codification of the Islamic conquest of the Levant and the islands of the Eastern Mediterranean basin in the period 11-40 AH / 632-660 AD.

Furthermore, the book gives also the general impression of the Orthodox Church and their position on Islamic conquest.

In the description of the events of the region conquest, the author presents a Syriac account of the facts from a Christian perspective.

This novel intersects with the whole Arab-Islamic story to bring about the Islamic conquest of the region.

This Syriac narrative seems to have favored some Arabic novels, and it ended the controversy over the different Islamic sources over the history of the conquest of some cities such as Damascus, or some decisive battles like Yarmouk.

Despite the author's prejudice against Arab Muslims in some chapters of his book, he always repeats that what Muslims did is not really comparable to the massacres and persecution of the Byzantine rum against the Christians of the East.

This is what we find in detail through this study, which may gives a neutral view of the realities of the region conquest during the Rashidi era.