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Philip Wood is Professor of History at Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London. He is the author of The Chronicle of Seert: Christian Historical Imagination in Late Antique Iraq and We Have No King but Christ: Christian Political Thought in Greater Syria on the Eve of the Arab Conquest, c. 400–585. Twitter @DrPhilipWood
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