Africa 500-1000. Introduction

We tend to perceive and emphasize the transition from Late Antiquity Early Middle Ages, especially in North Africa, through ruptures changes. This collection of papers highlights, alongside major changes transformations that affected entire Mediterranean region, longer-term processes developments Africa between AD 500 1000. In this time frame, region is shaped by Vandal, Byzantine Arab conquests, religious tensions, urban, rural economic changes, which finally resulted integration Maghreb into Islamic world. introduction will attempt place individual contributions larger contexts identify current desiderata research