Tanukhids in the Fourth Century

[Longovicium]

I have just taken receipt of Irfan Shahid's 'Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century' for research I am doing at the moment - before ploughing deep into it, I wonder if anyone here can recommend any other works on the Arab foederati and the Tanukhids, particularly around the period of Valens? It would be valuable to contextualize Shahid's work against other writers of this period and region.

I am particularly interested in the development of the Christian Arab foedus on the limes and its history during and after Julian's ill-fated Persian expedition and the subsequent imposition of an Arian creed upon the Orthodox foederati with the arrival of Valens upon the throne. Any help here with references would be enormously appreciated!

[Zenobia of Palmyra]

"Rome's Enemies Five: the Desert Frontier" by David Nicolle talks about the Tanukhids and the Lakhmids some, but it probably isn't nearly in depth enough

[Longovicium]

Thanks - I already have that. You right, I am looking for something of the depth of Shahid's work which people here might recommend. His work is replete with a good bibliography but sometimes it's good to pick people's brains to get an overview before I start to compile a book list!

[Zenobia of Palmyra]

Thanks - I already have that. You right, I am looking for something of the depth of Shahid's work which people here might recommend. His work is replete with a good bibliography but sometimes it's good to pick people's brains to get an overview before I start to compile a book list!

There is "The Romans in the Near East" by Fergus Millar. I have it on my bookshelf but I have yet to read all of it. I think it covers the period from the 1st to the 4th Centuries, so it may cut off before the period of the Tanukhids. The same in Bowersock's "Roman Arabia" which I believe goes no later than the reign of Constantine I.

[Longovicium]

Thanks - I'll look those up up!