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This book introduces the Age of Justinian, the last Roman century and the first flowering of Byzantine culture. Dominated by the policies and personality of emperor Justinian I (527–565), this period of grand achievements and far-reaching failures witnessed the transformation of the Mediterranean world. In this volume, twenty specialists explore the most important aspects of the age including the mechanics and theory of empire, warfare, urbanism, and economy. It also discusses the impact of the great plague, the codification of Roman law, and the many religious upheavals taking place at the time. Consideration is given to imperial relations with the papacy, northern barbarians, the Persians, and other eastern peoples, shedding new light on a dramatic and highly significant historical period.
A classification system for knowledge resources on Islam, revised and devised by the IIUM Library to replace the currently used Library of Congress Classification (LCC), subclass BP-Islam. Its maps topics befitting to supposed thesaurus-like arrangement of knowledge in Islam. It introduce subject leading appropriate to Islam. The publications is produced to fulfil the need of the Muslim world for a comprehensive classification system for knowledge resources in Islam, accommodate varying topic for the development of literature on Islam and Islamic law, promote IIUM niche area that is Islam, facilitate research on Islam, and to leverage the IIUM Library as exemplary library to others.