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This is where you will compile the bibliography for your Wikipedia assignment.
Greenwood, T.W., ‘Sasanian echoes and apocalyptic expectations. A re-evaluation of the Armenian History attributed to Sebeos’, Le Muséon 115 (2002) 323-97
Nicholson, Oliver. "Sebeos." In The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity,
1350-51. Oxford: University Press, 2018.
R.G. Hoyland, Seeing Islam, pp. 124-32
R.W. Thomson and J.D. Howard-Johnston, The Armenian History attributed to Sebeos, 2 vols, Liverpool, 1999 (Translated Texts for Historians 31)
Shoemaker, Stephen J. A Prophet Has Appeared: The Rise of Islam through Christian and Jewish
Eyes. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-0520299610
Thomas, David, and Barbara Roggema. "Sebeos." In Christian-Muslim Relations: A
Bibliographical History: 600-900, 139-40. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
